Give yourself permission, we have one chance here on Earth!

 

Give yourself permission today to forget about how you will make Money, or what you Do in the Future to "make it". Because right now, in between each heartbeat & breath, there is an invitation... just waiting to be noticed. It's the moment by moment opportunity for you to let go of being everything the world expects you to be, so that your absolutely free to BE & DO anything. Dreams can only live, when you give yourself over to them fully & w.o. regret, & in total dedication to growing the dreamseed into a blossoming everyday reality.

~DreamingBear Baraka Kanaan

Lift

once the sun comes out

my mood lifts

like the afternoon fog

Glimpse of Light

Some things seem too painful to bear

Stuck with these feelings that take me nowhere

Forced to acknowledge the storm within

that comes rolling in time and again

Holding on to things I can't control

Causing darkness to invade my soul

Try to protect my fragile ego

Finding it difficult to let go

not sure where I'm going

Not sure where I've been

A glimpse of light

I can see at the end

Wounded within

pain shared by all

What have we done

how much farther can we fall

How it keeps it's grip on me

like an unseen force

feeding on my vulnerability

Covered wounds

always underneath

foregoing the healing

the exploration of truth

I listen quietly 

in hope to find

all the light

that resides deep inside

Corruption of Capitalism

“Give a Man a Gun and he Can Rob a Bank. Give a Man a Bank and he Can Rob the World.”

Secret Destinations

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
--Martin Buber

Cancer

The topic of cancer has been coming up a lot in my circles recently. It seems someone I know is either fighting it, a family member is, or someone is struggling with the loss of a loved one to cancer. I've noticed that my parents' and grandparents' generations seem to be struggling a lot with the disease right now. My mother and I had a conversation about my grandfather, who died of colon cancer at the age of 55. That is how old my mother is now, and I'm sure the disease would have taken her by now as well, had she not been proactively fighting it and preventing it for the last 15 years. I'm really starting to see a trend and am wondering what is causing so many people to be fighting cancer right now. I'm convinced it has a lot to do with our way of living in this country, our diet, and environmental/pollution factors. We could be doing so much better, and if we were, I think this disease would start to lessen its grip on us.

While this isn't a fun topic to discuss, it is real and it is a disease that is effecting almost all of us. It could even effect us, and it is better to acknowledge that than deny it. Prevention is key and so is going to the doctor on a regular basis and getting tested if there are concerns. That has saved my mom and I'm sure it would have saved my grandfather as well, but he waited too long. Working out, eating right, meditating and reducing stress aren't just about feeling good and looking good. They are about staying healthy and helping our bodies fight the constant amount of threats that enter into them on a daily basis. I would like to be here a lot longer and I want my loved ones to be here too.

Cancer fighting foods:
http://www.jonbarron.org/alternative-cancer/bl080918/natural-health-blog-broccoli
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/features/top-cancer-fighting-foods?
http://www.cancure.org/cancer_fighting_foods.htm

The power of the mind and one's attitude is more powerful than most of us realize:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/women-use-mind-power-to-fight-cancer-721093.html

Gift

"The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Before the Storm

 The birds are all so busy

searching everywhere for food

Their internal awareness tells them 

to prepare for the storm

The same one we are aware of

only through our high tech computers

The humans hoard anxiously

while the birds 

although focused

are at peace and singing

Half Truth

 “We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.” 

~Carl Jung