8/5/04

[bubblze30]

Today's thought is:

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
--Henry David Thoreau

What comes to mind when you think about time? Is it a quantity that you measure? Time is certainly how we measure our lives in hours, years, or decades. We kill it, we waste it, we pass it, and we sometimes savor it. At work, it's easy to become clock-bound.

In the book Timeshifting, Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D., of the Omega Institute explains the difference between mental time and emotional time. With mental time, concepts and thoughts come quickly, and we learn to rely on this. We stay "in our heads" and think rapidly. But when we think about emotional time, we are entering another realm. Emotional time is connected with the limbic system of the brain and has to do with our emotions, which we often run from. Emotional time demands that we slow down and breathe so feelings can have the time they need to surface. When we are using only mental time, we are imbalanced, limiting our creativity and crowding our spirits.

How can we join our emotional time with our mental time?

Just for today, I will focus on my breathing and concentrate on blending my emotional time with my mental time.

[bubblze30]

I wish I could understand this more. Does anyone in here understand this post and maybe could help me better understand?

[sober1_94]

bubblze........

This is a real Meditation, hey? As with all mediations, we all have our own understanding....here is my take, and maybe you will or will not get anything from it....lol

What I am understanding, when we "only" live in our head we are not experiencing what we're doing, while doing one thing, we are planning what will be doing next. i.e. living life in the fast lane....stressed to the max, not taking the time to really enjoy/appreciate/ exactly what we are doing NOW.........even though what we are doing may be chores, our job, watching TV, the gym, shopping, etc our mind is always spinning off to the next "thing" never slowing down enough to allow ourselves to feel.

We keep over busy in our head, so we can avoid feeling our real feelings. Painful feelings are icky to face, and mostly we'd rather not feel them. We want to feel all of the "feel good" emotions, joy and love, but grief and pain are also a very real part of life. We need to feel the good with the not so good in order to be healthy......and to really be a part of life, to really live.


Find balance .......
live in the now
feel ALL of my feelings.........
slow down

this is what my take was........
huggers kk

[bubblze30]

Thanks so much for helping me understand...

[sober1_94]

Bubblze
Are you okay? you don't quite seem to be as "bubbly" as usual.
I know I have not been on the board for long, but it almost feels
as if you feel you are on the outside looking in, even through the
screen I am feeling that.
hugs and peace kk

[pjplibra]

I just wrote in my journal before checking out forum. What I wrote is:..

Much before and I'll do a new post on it... cause, I need Help - BAD.

It's like one day, long ago, I was walking along and I saw all these happy people. They were laughing, drinking and dancing to music. I joined in with them and now I realize the happiness was not joyful at all. It is a gathering of lost souls masking their inner-turmoil with alcohol and drugs. I felt and still feel good when I am joining in with them, him, her, whoever. But... it doesn't last forever. I need help. I can't deal with my reality right now.

I see what my life is and I can't deal with it. Sure, I'm not disabled .....but, well, maybe in a way I am.. in my mind, that is. For, isn't our life and how we perceive it all in our mind's eye?

I know I am maddening.... imagine being me!!!!!

[CarrieSueBee]

I think this main thought is to stay centered and close to things that keep you strong and empowered.

I know ther are certain elements in this world that really seem to zap my energy. Maybe this is what ((PJPLIBRA)) is feeling when she hangs with the drinkers and druggies, but that she doesn't feel good about it after it is over. That is an energy draining situation. It is a life draining situation.

We all owe it to ourselves to do things we enjoy that are not harmful! That don't drain us, but instead, make us feel more alive.

For me it is seeing or doing art, scrapbooking, working out, reading, gardening, gettng a massage, learning French, traveling, practicing yoga, baking a cake, or finding a really good deal at a thrift store or garage sale.
Catch ya later lovelies!
-CSueBee