Post by caressa on May 17, 2012 16:29:20 GMT -5
Did you ever think that there would ever come a time when you would ask yourself that question? If you were like me, you were always looking toward someone or something else to do the job.
The concept of empowerment was not there. There was a misguided sense of power. I thought I could make anyone do what I wanted and I thought if I used a certain substance, I would always feel better. Illusion!! It was like "I will fix you until you trust me, then when you trust me, then I am going to stop being your best friend!" I am not sure we were expecting abandonment because it was a long-time occurance in our lives, other abandoned us, we abandoned ourselves, but the concept alway looking outside of myself was there, and I had no thought that I could find answers within me, that I could be my own best friend, and that if I surrendered to the power of the Universe, go withthe flow of life, I was empowered to do what I need to do 'for myself' instead of looking for that illusive something that always seemed to evade me, or it would appear and magically disappear.
This post came about by my realization that I was feeling yucky! Why was I feeling yukcy? What did I do to obtain yucky? What can I do to change yucky into feeling "ahhhh!"? I kept it simple. I had a shower. In the shower I said my usual cleansing prayers, asking that all toxins mentally, emotional, spiritual and physically be taken from me and that they be replaced by clear, clean thoughts and feelings.
The power of prayer works! Make like a duck and let things slide off and away, let go and let God.
Star Choice June 2004
Was feeling this same way on the weekend. Not feeling good, not knowing what was the matter, and if there really was anything the matter, just the old body protesting the weather.
Today I was talking to a friend and we were talking computers. I said that mine was 10 years old. She said, "It is really old, it is a wonder it works." I said, "Yes I know, that is how I feel about my body some days. I try to do what I use to do 10 years ago, and can't. The body has trouble keeping up with the thoughts and doesn't always stop to think, maybe you shouldn't be doing this.
What a big difference when you stop and turn it all over in prayer.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.