Posted by Carolyn on February 4, 2012
I saw an ad today which said, “Change. Create It. Change. Experience It.” I started thinking. We fear change so often and it makes us uncomfortable. What if, instead of letting change happen to us, we participate in it – we create it. It is much more empowering to own our part in any process or situation. When we accept responsibility, we have the power to influence and create change. When we let things happen to us or insist that we had no part in something happening to us, we have no ability to change it. We are stuck being victims. Change is part of being alive. I wonder if one could say, the more change there is, the more alive our experience of life is. Let’s Live!
Posted by Carolyn on January 28, 2012
I am reading a fabulous book by Michael Piechowski. The title of the book is “Mellow Out,” They Say. If Only I Could.
“For each individual mind there is an optimal level of stimulation. The more intelligent and the more developed the brain, the higher level of stimulation is absolutely necessary to make it feel right. An intelligent brain craves stimulation the way a gambler craves roulette. It seeks stimulation by picking up puzzles to solve, problems to uncover, ideas to examine, patterns to discern, contradictions to catch and resolve. What happens when the brain is understimulated with too little mental feed? The result is boredom, ennui, restlessness, irritability, and
depression.” – Piechowski
So no matter your level of intelligence, you need stimulation: emotional, intellectual, sensual, imaginative, and physical. If you do not get it for an extended period of time you do not feel good consistantly. As I’ve said before, there are ups and downs naturally all the time. I am talking about when the down does not naturally flow back into an up. It would follow then, that while medication can bloster us temporarily, in order to fully correct the problem, we need to make sure we are stimulated at our appropriate level – we need to live a life that makes us feel alive.
Posted by Carolyn on January 21, 2012
Pain is an interesting subject. Why do we suffer? What is the purpose behind it? Sometimes there are no obvious answers to these questions. But often pain is bringing us an important message.
When a child touches a hot stove, it hurts. Sometimes if an action did not cause us pain we would never learn that it could harm us. And once we know something causes pain we can either avoid it or like our ancestors of long ago did with fire we can learn how to harness it and make it our tool. Pain is a teacher.
Pain is not always physical, but emotional or mental pain will eventually manifest itself physically if it is not addressed in its infancy. Pain tells us when something is wrong, when something is not quite right. Unhappiness is a type of pain. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »