True, it's not every day that I blog and share what I've written with the rest of the world. I feel I have a responsibility to be judicious in choosing what I share. Know why? Because there's already so much clutter in the world and in our individual minds, I don't want to add to it (I have my "morning pages"* for my own "clutter", thank God!). I may not always succeed in this goal of being succinct and sensible, but I work at it. Conscious effort is important.
I enjoyed this reading from Dailyom.com that my friend Marie posted on her blog** two weeks ago. Am sharing it because I find it affirming. I have an inkling you might just enjoy it too. I close now with a Hindi greeting which I first encountered in yoga, "namaste" (I was so eager to reply to my friend's post I misspelled the word) , the same one I sent to her. "Namaste", from Wikipedia*** means any of these:
- The Spirit in me meets the same Spirit in you.
- I greet that place where you and I are one.
- I salute the Light of God in you.
- I bow to the divine in you.
- I recognize that within each of us is a place where Divinity dwells, and when we are in that place, we are One.
- My higher energy salutes your higher energy.
- The God in me sees and honors the god in you.
- May the God within you, bless you
And from the same source, I quote: "In other words, it recognizes the equality of all, and pays honor to
the sacredness and interconnection of all, as well as to the source of
that interconnection. Namaskar is the term for such greetings, and is also used as a greeting itself."
Pretty rockin' greeting to me, that one. As life-affirming as they come. After reading the excerpt from Dailyom.com below, you'll see why I leave you with it too.
Namaste (and rock on, by all means),
Pau
Honoring Life Changes
The Wisdom Of Fear
Anything worth doing will always have some fear attached to it. For
example, having a baby, getting married, changing careers-all of these
life changes can bring up deep fears. It helps to remember that this
type of fear is good. It is your way of questioning whether you really
want the new life these changes will bring. It is also a potent
reminder that releasing and grieving the past is a necessary part of
moving into the new.
Fear has a way of throwing us off balance, making us feel uncertain and
insecure, but it is not meant to discourage us. Its purpose is to
notify us that we are at the edge of our comfort zone, poised in
between the old life and a new one. Whenever we face our fear, we
overcome an inner obstacle and move into new and life-enhancing
territory, both inside and out. The more we learn to respect and even
welcome fear, the more we will be able to hear its wisdom, wisdom that
will let us know that the time has come to move forward, or not. While
comfort with fear is a contradiction in terms, we can learn to honor
our fear, recognizing its arrival, listening to its intelligence, and
respecting it as a harbinger of transformation. Indeed, it informs us
that the change we are contemplating is significant, enabling us to
approach it with the proper reverence.
You might wish to converse with your fear, plumbing its depths for
a greater understanding of the change you are making. You could do this
by sitting quietly in meditation and listening or by journaling.
Writing down whatever comes up-your worries, your sadness, your
excitement, your hopes-is a great way to learn about yourself through
the vehicle of fear and to remember that fear almost always comes
alongside anything worth doing in your life.
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Excerpt from Dailyom.com -> http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2006/5093.html
*Three pages of longhand, stream-of-consciousness writing that Julia Cameron recommends as a tool for recovering one's creativity in her book "The Artist's Way"
**My friend Marie Dumlao's blog entry -> http://justmarie.blogs.friendster.com/justmarie/2006/10/honoring_life_c.html
***Wikipedia's entry on "Namaste" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste
