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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Annica

I spent the morning in meditation, despite the pain in my back. Bringing my attention to the area which was disruptive seemed to relieve the tension I developed slightly. Silly dreams last night, it's been awhile since I've had some. But I slept incredibly well being startled out of sleep only once.

Chris treated me between our clients this morning. A realignment of the sacrum, pubis symphysis and left hip [somehow] led to a discussion of the scar on my abdomen. I was speculative that massaging this would make any change in my back but allowed him to do so. I'm left with an incredible feeling and there is no trace of pain in my back what so ever. The tenderness of the scar (even after all these years) seems to have dissolved as well. His treatments are just amazing.

Imemine:
Much as I welcome 'good' sensations I too have learnt to experience and welcome those uncomfortable sensations. This too shall pass. Sensations are sensations. Good, bad, pleasant or unpleasant. Annica .. the nature of change. The knowledge of impermanance heals suffering. There is perfection in everything. In every thing there is God.

Comments on "Annica"

 

Blogger CE said ... (1:48 PM) : 

Thank you for your soothing words.
I acually experience relief and even ecstacy by feeling my pain and misery.

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (10:39 PM) : 

God has blessed you ...

 

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