Finding Your True Home within Your Life John O'Donohue

FINDING YOUR TRUE HOME WITHIN YOUR LIFE

Each one of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you. The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when you go out into the world, you return having lost some of yourself. Until you learn to inhabit your aloneness, the lonely distraction and noise of society will seduce you into false belonging, with which you will only become empty and weary. When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality. In a sense this is the endless task of finding your true home within your life. It is not narcissistic, for as soon as you rest in the house of your own heart, doors and windows begin to open outwards to the world. No longer on the run from your aloneness, your connections with others become real and creative. You no longer need to covertly scrape affirmation from others or from projects outside yourself. This is slow work; it takes years to bring your mind home. ~~ John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes

Tolle on Death and Eternal video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ft1rYcht0c

Vagus Nerve info

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/viva-vagus-wandering-nerve-could-lead-range-therapies

I am not old, Samantha Reynolds

I Am Not Old
I am not old…she said
I am rare.
I am the standing ovation
At the end of the play.
I am the retrospective
Of my life as art
I am the hours
Connected like dots
Into good sense
I am the fullness
Of existing.
You think I am waiting to die…
But I am waiting to be found
I am a treasure.
I am a map.
And these wrinkles are
Imprints of my journey
Ask me anything.
- Samantha Reynolds, www.bentlily.com

Blessing Bags

Have you ever heard of a Blessing Bag? Read below and make a few. Keep them in your car and when you see someone on the street corner, give them one. I knowthere are lot people who panhandle for a living but there are also those who are really down on their luck and could use a few necessities and a huge Blessing. Give it a try.......you will love the feeling it gives you just knowing you made someone very happy heart emoticon

BLESSING BAGS!!

Gallon Size Ziploc Bag – This is key for several reasons:

Helps to keep everything together & in one place so they can easily access the supplies in their bags/backpacks
Keeps the items from spilling/leaking onto their personal items in their bags
The bags can later be used for other storage options within their bags – storing toiletries, snacks, etc

Hand-Warmers – we put a couple packs in, especially during the winter, but even for those chilly evenings in the spring/summer/fall these would be very welcome. We buy a pack of 40 at Costco for around $15 ($.38/pk) & then we have these on hand for blessing bags as well as camping, winter sports, etc.

Bag of Quarters – These are nice to include for washing clothes at the laundromat (we just put them in a snack-size Ziploc bag to keep them contained in a smaller area

Bottle of Water – Mini water bottles work great so they don’t take up too much space or if you can fit a regular size water bottle

Band-Aids – these are something that may often be needed but may not be something they would be able to spend money on or think about having.

Baby Wipes – a small pack of baby wipes would be a great one to include to help with feeling clean & fresh

Hand Sanitizer – another great option to help them feel cleaner

Wash Cloth – buy an inexpensive wash cloth to include

Toiletries:
*If you have a lot of items to include in your bags, travel-size toiletries work great

Toothbrush
Toothpaste (travel size if you have a lot of items to put into your bag)
Floss
Soap (we bring home soaps from hotels if we don’t end up using all of them)
Deodorant
Shampoo/conditioner (these are also great products to save from hotels if you don’t use them as they’re the perfect size for these bags)
Comb
Personal hygiene items if you’re making a kit for a woman (tampons, pantiliners, pads, etc)
Sunscreen (depending on time of year)
Chapstick
Personal Items:
New Socks
New Underwear
Inexpensive gloves
Non-Perishable Foods:
Granola Bars
Energy Bars
Tuna/cracker packs
Trail mix
Raisins
Peanuts
Fruit cup/ applesauce cup (& include a spoon)
Gum/hard candy
Hot Cocoa/Spiced Cider Mixes or on-the-go coffee mixes
Courtesy http://www.thriftynorthwestmom.com/blessing-bags-assemble-…/

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Sciatica

aw a little of uncomplicated sciatica as a PT---the piriformis muscle is usually involved. Magnesium protocol, Mag-a-hol spray, if acute, use ice for 48-72 hrs, if chronic use heat---15 min to get physiological effect, do not use heat over 30 min, then it becomes a irratant to the nervous system. For EMM---spinal flush, trace/flush bladder and gall bladder, make sure kidney open, find where each body holds emotional residue with painful body, and breathing techniques---i teach to breath into the chakra, gather the pain, exhale from the chakra sending it to the universe to make new life---I teach to do all chakras--just some ideas.

 Turmeric - lots of it. Look up herbs for nervous system. Feet burning too? Wear tight/diabetic socks. Sleep in gym shoes. Tell yourself, "I'm okay. I'm fine

Messenger Mary Oliver ..."my work is loving the world..."

Veterans Yoga resource

http://www.veteransyogaproject.org/practice.html

awesome resource for Energy Medicine charts, M, NV, etc

http://www.jemi.website/basic-guide-to-strengthening-your-meridian-energy.html

acid basic balance chart

Dear Men and Women by John Hall Wheelock

Alice Walker quote heart ...so open that the wind blows through it...

this comment from Alice Walker and i liked the imagery, the consciousness of what she describes about heartbrokenness...She speaks of Heart in the sense of heartfulness. I love how resilient words are, how they can be used like an artist uses paints. I know the process she describes, as do most of us. hmmmmm

Alice's reference to Pema Chodron and the wind blowing through ones heart-that is the sensation that feels unavailable to me when i think of war. What i find is almost a constant opportunity lately to breathe, calm, connect and hold openness, stillness. I am getting insights into how the past few years' experiences have taught me what it is to feel the moment, rather than "other sensations" that are future/past/fear/control based.

Alice Walker(reply to an interviewer): You know, what are hearts for? Hearts are there to be broken, and I say that because that seems to be just part of what happens with hearts. I mean, mine has been broken so many times that I have lost count. But it just seems to be broken open more and more and more, and it just gets bigger. In fact, I was saying to my therapist not long ago, "You know, my heart by now feels open like a suitcase. It feels like it has just sort of dropped open, you know, like how a big suitcase just falls open. It feels like that."Instead of that feeling of having a thorn through your heart, that feeling Pema Chodron talks about in tonglen meditation, you have a sense of openness, as if the wind could blow through it. And that's the way I'm used to my heart feeling. The feeling of the heart being so open that the wind blows through it. I think that is the way it's supposed to feel when you're in balance. And when you get out of balance, you feel like there's no wind, there's no breeze, there's just this rock and it has a big thing sticking through it. I don't know how you get from one feeling to the other, except through meditation, often, but also activism, just seeing what needs to be done in the world, or in our families, and just start doing it.