RE: Fully Present
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I love this in ways I can't describe (you know when you read someone else write something you've been needing? Kinda that)
I think a lot of this kumbaya, at peace with all, be-water shit is used to sell an idea, and to shame people into submission. I still get very guilty when I can't focus on my guided meditation practice. Why can't I be still for a moment? But then, it's not who I am, and those thoughts that steal me away sometimes are toxic, but other times, they're just me. It's this imposed idea of what grounded should be that's got us warring with what our subconscious is telling us. You need to observe this. Think about this. This is beautiful.
PS: I didn't know you did Tai Chi ~ that sounds wicked.
PPS: I sing outdoors, too. Few things as authentic and true to yourself (For some people, ofc) as singing in the open, and baring your soul.
<3 Thank you for this.
Why, thank you for receiving it so well! I can't do new age stuff. I feel downright silly and inept. Not feelings I care to feel often. Especially in yoga classes - I feel like I am doing it all wrong, very stressful. Tai chi is different, it's a lot like dance, and few people are doing it "right" as far as I can tell. It's fantastic exercise. I am stronger, which is something for a little old lady to say.
After the way the supposedly spiritual community embraced the covid incarceration and lined up for their experimental and untested medical "treatment," I lost a great deal of my belief in spirituality as it is being presented to us today. Psychology too. We've been hoodwinked!
Singing anywhere is divine, but singing outside transforms me in a special way. I feel like a bird decorating the soundscape. I become more a part of nature, not less. Afterwards, I can see farther, and hear more, fragrances are more pronounced, the tiniest of flowers draw my attention. It makes me very happy.
Totally! I thought I'd found a decent class recently, but then one class, the teacher kept badgering us to "look more graceful", "be more poised". Needless to say I walked straight outta that one.
It's on my list of things to try out (along with Qi-Gong, though they seem a little similar? From where I'm standing).
100%. I try not to, yet now I can't help, with the new people I meet, wondering who they were during the pandemic. Which side of the barricades they stood on, as it seems of crucial importance. I know what you mean about losing faith in a community, though I hope not in individuals. :)
This is beautiful. <3
Those of us who were not complying with the capricious and harmful dictates of our governments were not allowed to speak. Do you remember that? The collaborators could talk and talk and talk about covid, but if you didn't agree and dared to say something, you were deemed insensitive, conspiracy theorist, domestic terrorist, selfish, and crazy. It's a bit better now, when I discuss it there is often someone surprising in the room who supports me. It is extremely important that we speak up now. People seem a bit more open to hearing it, and must be reminded of how easy it was to get them to turn, hatefully and dangerously, against those of us who were making a different lifestyle choice. This is how we find out who they were during the phony pandemic, and put a tiny glimmer of understanding that they could have chosen to think and act differently into their befuddled brains.
Honestly, I'm worried the only reason people seem more open to listening is that we're out of the obvious red zone, you know? I worry if the tables turned again, they'd be as deaf as they were the first time. Not that that should stop us speaking out of course.
It stuns me, all the aggression and trauma that the past three years have caused. Because many of the collaborators (very apt word, that) won't even think of it as such, but the trauma of being made an outsider and a danger for wanting to protect yourself and your children...that runs deep, and there's no telling how it'll influence the coming years.
I've found that, too, though often in a bit of a phony way. Like my "normie" friends will hear that maybe the vax had side effects and wasn't such a godsend after all, but still end up playing the victim. Now they'll nod and say "yeah they tricked us", but their failure to see it then makes me doubtful about their chances in a future pandemic/catastrophe of this nature...
That tiny thought "they tricked us" is very important for the believers to have. It is a tiny dent in their force field against using simple logic for themselves, instead of following orders from their governments.
It will happen again. Not in the same way of course, that would be too easy for us to identify. Nuclear fallout incarceration, WWIII fervor, I think we are heading to war. Look at how many countries are opposing the US at present. It's all good.
I hope so. I really do. (That they wake up, not that we get to war, obviously)
HaHa! It is still true, this "peace with all" and "be like water", but the selling and the sellers disturb the message and make it seem untrue. By the clumsy way of "me too!". He who does not sell will sell and he who does not buy will buy. ;)
Oh I agree. In theory, they're quite true, just not the way they're packaged. ;)