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Topic: Accepting reality !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Solane Star
Knowflake Posts: 5378
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted July 27, 2007 08:11 PM
 
Accepting reality “...self-contempt never inspires lasting change.” -- Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter I can suck myself down into a deep, black hole when I focus on what I think I SHOULD be… more loving, sexy, productive, whatever. Thinking I should be something else means I’m not good enough now. This is poverty thinking and a guaranteed way to be miserable. I can let go of this suffering by accepting WHAT IS. I can say, “This is how I am right now and that’s okay.” When I first tried this, I could say it but not believe it. Then I began to experience the freedom this perspective brings – just by changing my mind! Now I’m beginning to believe it. What a gift! “When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.” -- Byron Katie IP: Logged |
Mirandee
Knowflake Posts: 4812
From: South of the Thumb - Taurus, Pisces, Cancer
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted July 27, 2007 10:25 PM
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Solane Star
Knowflake Posts: 5378
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted July 28, 2007 12:25 AM
SWEET to see you around!!!! 
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Mirandee
Knowflake Posts: 4812
From: South of the Thumb - Taurus, Pisces, Cancer
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted July 28, 2007 02:48 AM
Haven't been feeling very well lately  Don't know what it is. Just an all over aching and malaise. IP: Logged |
aqua inferno
Knowflake Posts: 1106
From: hopping about Europe
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted July 28, 2007 05:54 PM
omg SS, this is the best post so far!!  oh Mirandee cute smilie! Feel better and get some rest  ------------------
I wish,I wish, I was a fish
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BlueRoamer
Knowflake Posts: 3944
From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 28, 2007 06:36 PM
That sucks Mirandee. Do you have any other symptoms? Are your glands swollenI had a cold this week, I've been in my house all week, I'm so bored I'm going INSANE. IP: Logged |
aqua
Knowflake Posts: 2805
From: dreamland
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted July 29, 2007 03:17 AM
yeaah nice one ..........IP: Logged |
Xena
Moderator Posts: 398
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted July 29, 2007 06:50 AM
Excellent post, SS. I'm champing at the bit, as astrologers tell me wonderful things are going to be happening, and they ain't, and I'm getting depressed (though not through want of trying). Although I look at long-range forecasts and they *apparently* don't look too good, which makes me wonder about the veracity/integrity of the whole astrological movement, and why it's so addictive. Is it something of an illusion, I ask myself? Is it a crutch? I think the phrases *independent thought* and *easily hypnotized* come to mind. I want to get away from everyone for a while. I don't want to socialize or chase relationships. I'm bored with almost everything!! Although August is always a difficult time of year for me... IP: Logged |
Mirandee
Knowflake Posts: 4812
From: South of the Thumb - Taurus, Pisces, Cancer
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted July 29, 2007 11:06 AM
Thanks BR and aqua.  BR I can relate to that. I haven't gone any further than my yard swing lately either. Takes too much energy to move about.  No other symptoms. Just a general blah feeling. Maybe it's all just allergy related. Pollen is high right now. Could just be due to age. Love this thread. I would agree that it is the best message yet. It took so many years to come to the point of actually accepting myself and liking myself. Not putting any "should bes" on what I am or where I am at in life. It's a great feeling to be comfortable in one's own skin.
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miss_muffet
Knowflake Posts: 832
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Registered: Mar 2004
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posted July 30, 2007 11:34 AM
Perfect! quote:
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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fayte.m
Knowflake Posts: 9809
From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted July 30, 2007 03:09 PM
quote:
“When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.”
I posted this elsewhere but it applies here also.
quote:
After I became disabled I stubbornly refused to use a cane. I kept telling myself I did not need it. So stubborn I was and embarrassed to go about with a cane that I had to fall, break more bones etcetera before I faced the hard fact, "I am disabled!".
I finally swallowed my pride and accepted that fact rather than trying to "positive" think it away and got a very nice heavy cane!
Actually it is shepherd's hook and much sturdier than a common cane!
And as I told another..
"I am disabled, but I am not my disabilities!" 
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"Heaven doesn't want me and Hell is afraid I'll take over and start a rehab for the damned!"
~Judgement Must Be Balanced With Compassion~
~Do Not Seek Wealth From The Suffering, Or The Dire Needs Of Others~
~Assumption Is The Bane Of Understanding~
~ if you keep doing what you did, you'll keep getting what you got.~
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