SWAZ

I have been working on this actively for several years now, but I never quite articulated it as concisely as this.

Essentially, I believe that exclusivity feeds the ego, whereas inclusiveness feeds the soul. 4 days ago

I have no idea how this got on here.

Actually I have an idea, the iPhone decided it belonged on my list. 2 weeks ago

Overhead lighting is far too stimulating when one is having sleep difficulties. Perhaps candles are the answer. It is worth a try. 2 months ago

Irritation is inevitable. Trying to eliminate irritation from one’s life, from my experience, is a fruitless folly. My late mother-in-law used to say “if you don’t court trouble, it comes in your bedroom window.”

If trouble is inevitable, then the focus is dealing with it. I believe that the goal is to deal with the perturbation gracefully and harmoniously. This does not mean one denies the sorrow and frustration that comes with plot complications. experiencing the full spectrum of emotions is what it means to be human. Dealing with these gracefully requires one be with the emotion and experience for the appropriate length of time and then move on from it. The experience of the negative emotion should not cost to spare. 2 months ago

Yes, I believe all that I have suffered is a gift, the gift of hard lessons. ....and of course a greater appreciation of joy (or more accurately the absence of suffering). 2 months ago

 I transcend by taking the high road through the middle way.
I transcend by not winning and not needing to win. 
I transcend by accepting what is.
I transcend by not expecting.
I transcend by paying attention.
....and thusly my soul coalesces and crystallizes.
....and thusly I approach wholeness and stay out of that hole I clawed my way out of…. 3 months ago

If one were to do this, he or she would need to go to bed quite early. 3 months ago

It only takes a small amount of alcohol to completely stall emotional maturation/growth/healing.

It is an excellent drug if you want to stay exactly where you are. 3 months ago

....bad idea but it is worth cheating on my diet every so often. 3 months ago

I am an unabashed meat eater. I have had a go a vegetarianism and even veganism and they are not for me.

However that does not mean I support modern conventional factory farming or eat the products.

I don’t touch grain fed beef. Grain will kill a cow and I don’t want to eat dying animals. Grass fed beef only, it is more nutritious than grain fed. Beef producers in the US are allowed to feed cows non food items such as plastic, cardboard and even motor oil. This, of course, contaminatea the meat. Therefore
I believe it prudent to avoid the cheapest beef for this reason.

I stay away from factory farmed chickens. I don’t eat grains and I don’t like to eat animals that eat grains. I strongly prefer “pastured” chickens that live outside where they use their muscles and eat insects and worms. Supposed organic. Chickens are mostly factory farmed indoor crowded chickens that are fed organic grain.

I only eat wild fish that are sustainably harvested (I use the Seafood Watch app from Monterrey Bay Aquarium). I keep my top of the food chain fish, like tuna and swordfish, down to couple time per month to keep my mercury load to a minimum.

I eat farmed oysters, lots of them. 4 months ago

The divorce mediator I selected is assisting in transcending a very difficult situation. She is awesomely competent. 4 months ago

There is 4 months ago

Parting the waters does not equal doormat syndrome. Righteous anger should be expressed. Yes you can forgive afterward (with the heart), but bottling anger is a bad idea. 4 months ago

I release my fear of inadequacy.

I release my fear of rejection.

I know that I will face inadequacy and rejection, but I will not have my life quality diminished by the fear that they may occur. 4 months ago

I have a massage therapist trained in St John’s NMT that digs away at my trigger points. I believe that one can improve one’s posture without trigger point therapy, but i would advise against it. It is very synergistic with the stretches and exercises.

Paul Chek was retrained in st johns NMR also and still uses it in his practice if what I hear is correct.

Myself I work the trigger points in my scalenes and SCM as part of my stretching routine. I was trained as an massage therapist a long time ago but haven’t practice a lot. I just received my CHEK Exercise Coach certification last month. This work excites me a great deal and am passionate about pursuing it as a career. 5 months ago

I was assessed by a CHEK practitioner. Actually I have two separate assessments from different practitioners. It mostly comes from identifying your dysfunction syndrome rather than a muscle inventory. 5 months ago

I firmly believe that one cannot have profound health without excellent posture. In fact I find that you can tell a lot about someone’s health by observing their posture. Having good posture helps keep the energy flowing within the body.

We live in an age where there is a pandemic of bad posture. Chairs, toilets, cars, computers, couches, have conspired against us. Just take a look around you and you will see it.

A lot of bad posture comes from unresolved emotional issues. People get bent by life, often at early age.

Rehabilitating one’s posture takes a lot of work and rarely do you see it. One has to stretch the short tight muscles and strengthen the long weak muscles. This means you first must figure out which of your muscles are short and tight and which are long and weak. On top of that, if you are to make good progress, you must resolve the emotional issues that tweaked you in the first place. This may take reinventing yourself completely. Lots of hard work but perhaps the best thing you can do for yourself, in my opinion. 5 months ago

The word courage comes from coer, Latin for heart. 5 months ago

Once i realized that i wasn’t a loving person because I only gave love to those i deemed deserving, i went about changing it. I also realized that I also did not love myself enough and i needed to change that also.

Loving self and loving others is a tough discipline.

Having love and compassion for everyone, especially those that one doesn’t naturally have empathy towards is hard work, but it has great rewards. I had trouble with the powerful, judgemental and driven types. It is a lot easier to feel compassion for homeless beggars than, for example, Dick Cheney. The man is obviously tortured, but the arrogance and greed Combined with great power and questionable ethics initially strike up other emotions for me.

I adopted the goal “have love flow freely through me” as part of this effort. I believe that for whatever reason you block your love, you suffer to some degree. I also believe that when love flows freely through you, it has a profound healing effect.

Love does not always flow freely through me, if ever at all, but the flow is much greater than before, much greater. I highly recommend the practice. 5 months ago

I have Faith in my ability to transcend any situation.

I know how to dance the dance. 5 months ago

Parting the waters means not responding reactively. By parting the waters the stimulus does not cause a ripple effect through one’s body/mind.

“all phenomena is illusion.
Neither attracted or repelled,
My habits will carry me through..” 5 months ago