Leidee

Eeesh.

I will let you know how I go, Freeform I will start doing them shortly when I am on holidays (in a couple of weeks' time). Right now, work and life has me feeling a bit run down but, hopefully, with a bit of a break and some consideration of the direction of my life, I will feel inspired again...

Good link I am going to start those energy exercises myself. L

How can you surmise any beliefs Lozen does or does not hold simply because she posted something that caught her eye for an, as yet, unexplained reason? You assume much. L

let go or get dragged...

http://www.stevepavlina.com/

Yes, it is all fun. I think one of the big things that LoA has done for me personally is helped me to recognise that my thoughts are an ACTION which can create consequences - whether those consequences are manifested by the universe or whether the action of thinking creates an emotional reaction within me. L

Has anyone seen Steve Pavlina's blog? I have only discovered it today and it does have some interesting ideas about LoA. It seems Steve is a believer but he also discusses things that can affect LoA which are (briefly) polarity and subjective reality (which he may have pilfered from other writers/thinkers). I haven't read into it enough at this stage to make any informed decision one way or another and am just putting it out there as an additional avenue for adventurous discussion Peace L

You cannot rely on the media to provide unbiased information on anything. Hillary Clinton will not be the first presidential hopeful to have certain aspects of her personality or method of dealing with people "protected" by the media, nor will she be the last. L

*edit* Digression...

It depends on who you share ideology with as to who you will consider to be taoist writers or otherwise. You ask, "how can they be considered taoists?". Well, anyone can consider anyone to be anything, can't they? Look at Catholocism for a moment. If you can recognise that as many Catholics as exist on this planet right now equals as many different view points on Catholicism, then hopefully you can being to understand that there are no hard and fast rules about anything when it comes to people's closely held beliefs and opinions (whether they write them or otherwise). L

Hello Lozen Th question your ask struck a chord with me. Personally, I agree with Trunk's thoughts on this. I have just turned 31 and have never been able to focus on any one thing. It is like my mind slides away. I always thought this was multi-tasking combined with being a Gemini. On the night of my birthday I found out some crucially important information regarding my birth father. Something that completely changed how I thought of the situation and how I thought he felt about me (I believed my birth father didn't love me...crazy relationship issues thereafter premised on this belief...). Turns out he did/does love me (I won't go into too many details). I came home from my parents' house. Cried with relief. Went to sleep. Woke up the next day and had tonnes more focus then I did the previous day. Small things...cleaned my room. Big things: Made a list of the things I need to find out or purchase for my trip overseas. Considered my career. Starting to re-establish friendships. Started looking after myself properly...cooking and cleaning. I can see myself establishing myself to create the life I want to live. L PS - The day after I got this information, I went to my reiki/bowen lady to have some work done on my body. She couldn't find a single knot or area of pain that has previously existed in the two years she has known me. After 15 minutes, she told me to get off the table and we sat and had a cup of tea instead!

I am heading to Tao Garden in July for the Quan Yin retreat with Sharon Smith and Tiffany Fyans (I think that is her name....going from memory). I just need to get away! Only 6 weeks to go until I can rest and relax again! YAYAYA

"Finding" time is always going to be an issue because, no matter how old or what study/work you do, there are many demands on our time. We all have many people to look after and, unfortunately, we can often fall into a habit of placing other people or situations before ourselves. Personally, if I can only find 5 minutes in a day - I take that and meditate. If I have longer, then I will do some forms. Life can be too busy but it is important to honour yourself and your needs because this makes you much more capable of dealing with the stressors of every day living. L

Nice post. I am going to print that out when I get to work tomorrow as the timing could not be anymore perfect for me! Peace and blessings, L

YAYAY! My faith has been restored Peace out L

Perhaps we can all just stop trying to psycho-analyse each other's behaviour for a little bit? It is impossible to get a full sense of a person or consider whether that person is emotionally, spiritually, mentally and physically sound from posts on a website. All anyone is doing is making a guess and such guesses are best left in the mind. The other option is that we set up a topic where SeanD and Wayfarer can take their argument and not have it disrupt so many other topics. L

I'm with Lozen on this. SeanD and Wayfarer - Just let it go, both of you. I don't know why it is so hard to just accept that you don't like each other and/or don't communicate well with each other and just let it be. We don't all have to enjoy each other's company. I am getting frustrated to keep seeing this cycle repeat itself over again with no resolution. All I am saying Is give peace a chance Or, if not peace... SHUT UP ALREADY! Which, if nothing else, would be peaceful!

I have come to the point where I am happy to leave the concept of ego behind because I felt it was more restrictive to me. I could never achieve the perfection (or balance) that my "ego" demanded. In my opinion, the concept of ego is different for each person but for me it became a very hard task master that often left me feeling like I had fallen short in some way. L

I haven't yet checked out the link but something said in one of the earlier posts (perhaps Goldisheavy?) reminded me of this: *********** When I ask someone to look for the ego, he or she cannot really find it. It isn't there. An angry thought or emotion triggers the belief, "Oh, I've got to get rid of that -- that's my ego." It's as if everything that's happening in a human being, especially a human being who is interested in being spiritual, gets used as proof of the existence of an ego that must be annihilated. And yet nobody can find it. I have yet to have somebody show me the ego. I've seen lots of thoughts, feelings, and emotions. I've watched expressions of anger, joy, depression, and bliss, but I have yet to have one person present me with the ego. From: Emptiness Dancing, by Adyashanti. www.adyashanti.org **************** Interesting because I was just coming to the point of consideration of what ego is. I had a thought "does ego really exist?" and then a few days later I received this in my email. Co-inky-dink? Peace

Wow, I never realised that being gullible was restricted to only "western civilization".

I am a very strong believer in letting "men be men" and at the (very...like a peach, some might say ) ripe age of 30, am well past the need to play with men for ego or for any other purpose that may result in someone feeling reduced or judged by the interaction. In the gentlest terms, I don't agree with MichelleD's "experiment". MichelleD's invitation was overtly sexual and, as I believe what gravitates to you by way of interactions is generally on the level at which you yourself are operating, what she received back seems to me to be perfectly reasonable given the invitation extended. I see a young leidee who knows how to use the equipment...but she does not yet know why. Peace L

And this is a prime example of the effect of perception Your questions are based on your perception of my words. Such loaded terms as "did the world somehow fail you?" or to become "divorced from the external"! Why would you think that would be the genesis of my realisation that another person's perception of me has very little actually to do with me? An external perception is often based on the erroneous belief that another person can know me better than I can know myself...

It does nothing to me. It is external to me. I sense it and can acknowledge the observations/perceptions but I don't buy into it.

I think a lot is made of how society has become more materialistic but, if you scratch beneath the surface a little bit, the question becomes: how much of this "materialism" is driven more by the concept of scarcity? If you don't think there is enough to go around, you are going to grab everything you can. You aren't going to question it too deeply because you are concerned just to get "it" before "it" is all gone! So whilst I agree that The Secret does on a surface level seem to mostly deal with the material, I think it does something far more important: it says there is ENOUGH. Whatever you want, there is enough of. If there is enough, then what is the panic? Once you remove the panic then people have room to breath, to think, to meditate, to consider and to grow. Maybe I have a naive belief in people, but I feel that once people realise that there is ENOUGH and that they don't have to be a part of the rat race trying to get "it" before "it" goes, then people will consider things on other levels, including accessing the law of attraction to not only help themselves but to assist other people