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As expected the Enlightenment 0.19 release features full support for Wayland, down to serving as its own compositor and running directly off the DRM graphics device.
Going back to last year has been
Enlightenment's "Project Burrito"
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E19 act as its own Wayland compositor
(thus not dependent on Wayland's Weston compositor), to top off early Wayland support that was found with last year's E18 release.
There's been many
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to this lightweight but powerful window manager / desktop and now the last bits of Wayland support to make it "full" have been pushed.
Most recently covered was
the DRM support added to Enlightenment
so that it can talk directly -- and render -- to the Direct Rendering Manger graphics devices. Support for running at this low-level is needed for serving as a Wayland compositor and that code is now in place.
Samsung's Chris Michael has pushed the code into Enlightenment Git today that provide the full Wayland support using DRM. This work to Enlightenment and its foundation libraries (EFL) is still considered "highly experimental" but now it's possible to build a full Wayland configuration without any dependence on X11. The developers admit there's likely lots of bugs with their Wayland implementation right now, but a proper call-for-testing will be issued when the code is in better shape.
Chris Michael has clarified the full Wayland support as "everything that current Wayland supports, minus XDG-Shell which is coming." However, some Enlightenment features do not yet function and some Enlightenment modules may have issues running.
Besides the code being a bit rough right now with having just landed in Git, there is currently no XWayland support within Enlightenment for automatically launching legacy X11 apps within a root-less XWayland environment. Until there's this fallback support for using the X11 layer, the real-world use of Enlightenment on Wayland will likely be quite limited.
Apparently there is some code written and Chris Michael says it's just not pushed to Git yet.
For those wishing to try setting up an Enlightenment Wayland environment can read the instructions via the
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The Andes Roundtable presents Carol Little, a licensed psychotherapist who has extensive experience with loss and grief, both personally and professionally, who will talk about the realities of loss and grief in individual lives, in families, and in our culture. Carol received her education and training in California and had a private practice in Santa Rosa and Mill Valley before returning to this area 20 years ago. Hunting Tavern, 7 p.m.
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The Auxiliary of Margaretville Hospital and Mountainside Residential Care Center will meet at 4 p.m. in Club Med at Mountainside. All are welcome.
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I was starting to despair before finding this plugin, but it does exactly that. You can save each video as a separate article, together with your accompanying text, so there's no messing about with playlists or xml files, you're just using the Joomla core, so can control the number of items appearing in your list, and the paging.
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Thousands of nominations were submitted by students, parents and the community. Every nominated teacher was given the opportunity to apply for the Golden Apple Award. The Golden Apple Selection Committee, made up of 12 Lee County business and community leaders, selected the finalists from a group of more than 300 applicants. The group ranked each application, narrowing the field to 67 Teachers of Distinction and 30 Finalists. In the coming months, the finalists will be observed in their classrooms and interviewed by the Selection Committee as part of the ongoing selection process. The Selection Committee looks for characteristics of outstanding teachers including control of their work environment, outstanding performance in the classroom, demonstration of imagination, commitment, communication skills and personal concern for the needs of students.
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Awakening to the Dance: A Journey to Wholeness
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"Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become." Tony Parsons
Is home a place for you or an experience? What are the qualities you associate with home? How do the experiences you have in a place affect your concept of home?
I didn't grow up in one place and know it intimately as people do when they've lived forever in a town. Not having experienced that, I can only fantasize about the security it must give one, a place where one truly belongs. But I've always been attracted to a wider field, to the infinite variety of cultures and perspectives of people who have risked and fallen over the edges where safety begins.
I've lived outside the box, often longing to want what is in it so that I would fit into the world around me more easily. But whenever I've crawled inside and tried to stay there, I've been discovered as a fraud and turned away, rejected as unsuited for that particular mold. Although it was painful at the time, I'm grateful for the circumstances that pushed me out into places where I learned things I would never have learned otherwise.
Cold Winters Develop Resilience
For example, living in Nebraska, I learned that many farmers (even those with mechanized farms) still planted by the phases of the moon although they never admitted it. These were the descendents of pioneers who had survived the harsh cold deprivation of every kind and the unrelenting winds that howled so high and long that some went mad trying to settle this unforgiving land.
After my first winter there, facing over 30 straight days below 0, locked in a land of ice, I developed a new respect for my neighbors. It took strength and perseverance just to walk across the street in winter. The joke was that if the wind stopped blowing everyone would fall down. But behind all that ice, I found plenty of warm hearts and prairie humor.
What We Resist May Persist
After my brother, his family and my parents all moved to New Orleans, I used to say I loved to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. I wasn't a party person, didn't drink much, and ate healthy food; besides, it was sweltering all year round. But, despite my original protests, I moved there because I wanted to see my nephews and niece grow up. Seduced by New Orleans' unique culture, I stayed for 12 years.
It was a love-hate relationship from the start, like trying to love a faithless man who, nevertheless, touches the romance in your soul and makes you laugh like Dionysus himself. How could any writer not be enchanted with the French Quarter, standing on St. Peter beneath the apartment where Tennessee Williams completed "Streetcar Named Desire" or wandering through the dark, ancient alleys that inspired Anne Rice's vampires?
In New Orleans I learned that punctuality wasn't always a virtue, Mama was always Queen, a little lagniappe adds spice to life, and how to play like I was going to die tomorrow.
Joy May Sometimes Hide Despair
I also learned about aching poverty, that some high school restrooms were so filthy kids cut class to run home and use a clean toilet, that school administrators had virtually no resources except hearts large enough to embrace the world. I taught a crack baby turned 14 who could never sit still and saw the price everyone pays for allowing there to be a large, poorly educated underclass. I taught kids whose fathers and brothers had been murdered and who mourned with despair when their favorite music teacher was gunned down. I learned about anger and compassion.
All People Are One
Then I went to West Africa, traveling with other teachers on a Fulbright-Hays Travel Abroad Grant to study the literature and culture. After flying all night, we landed with the sunrise in Dakar, Senegal on the edge of the Sahara Desert, and as I stepped onto the ground, I was overwhelmed with the feeling I was home in the deepest sense.
Of course, the food was similar to the gumbos and jambalaya of New Orleans—most slaves brought to New Orleans had come from there—and I could hear the beginnings of jazz in the syncopated rhythms of the drums. But, it was more than that and more than the fact that humans originated in Africa.
Living Close to Nature Makes Us One
In that land, people still lived close to nature, the way I had as a child, eating from a garden and talking to the spirits of trees. There, even Christians and Muslims integrated their traditional animistic spirituality into their daily lives. These were people who offered the tea of friendship before they asked why you were there, whose lives were vibrant with the celebrations of rituals that gave meaning to each passage in life.
What Feels Like Home May Be An Illusion
Years later when I moved from New Orleans to New Mexico, I felt I had found my soul's home at last. Sunsets spread across the sky—hot pink turning to burgundy and orange melting into violet, indigo and deep space black. On New Year's Day, cold and crisp, the air was filled with the songs of the Corn Dance at Santa Domingo Pueblo, where the whole community danced together in sacred harmony.
But despite my love for this natural world and the indigenous culture there, in the world of my people there was no harmony for me. Along with the beauty existed the reality of an earth blood-soaked with genocide, the energy of hate, and a need to protect lies. Trying to speak the truth in my life and about the students I taught, I lost my friends, my spiritual community and my work. The desert stripped me; my bones were burned bare by the sun.
Wholeness May Be Born From Pain
One night, in the midst of this pain and darkness, I dreamed that as I wandered through a new apartment, I found a darkened cave-like room with a high domed ceiling and rock floor. Turning on the light, there stood before me a towering ancient cathedral, a holy place at the center of my being. I learned I was finally whole.
I still sometimes envy those who live where their ancestors settled decades ago. But I know that if I had enjoyed such comfort all my life that security would have become a place for me to hide from the unknown. Instead I have learned that we are all One, and I have a freedom I never dreamed possible because—everywhere I go, I'm home.
What is home to you? Please Comment.
© 2006 Georganne Spruce ZQT4PQ5ZN7F5
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"Each and every master, regardless of the era or place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mt. Fuji, but there is only one summit – love." Morihei Ueshiba
What is the pinnacle of your success? How do you know when you have reached the summit of your journey? Was it what you expected it to be?
Last weekend, a friend and I drove up the Blue Ridge Parkway to see the autumn colors at their peak. With trees covering the roadway much of the way, we traveled through a tunnel that at times glowed with the yellow of tulip poplar and the bronze of beech. At another turn in the road, the light was transformed by the red of maples and sourwood. Like crystal sparkling, the light played through leaves and branches luring us into another world inhabited only by nature.
Our Expectations May Lead to Disappointment
We were seduced by its beauty into believing that, at our destination, the colors would be at perfect peak. When we arrived at Craggy Gardens, the mountains were, for the most part, a lovely array of the usual red, orange, and yellow that we expected, but not as intense as I had seen them in the past, and on some hillsides the trees were already stripped of their leaves. It was beautiful—just not as brilliant as I had hoped. I was disappointed.
We hiked up the side of the mountain to 5,500 feet to a bald, a treeless area at the summit where there is only low-growing vegetation. At other times of the year, blueberries and rhododendron grow there, but at this time of year there is little colorful vegetation and the grass is mostly brown; however if one looked beyond what was in the immediate foreground, a beautiful and breath-taking vista opened.
A Higher Perspective May Open Our Minds to the Beauty of Life
The sky was clear and intensely blue with wisps of cirrus clouds streaming over the mountains. Meandering streams and roadways danced through the hills, creating a patch work of light, shadow and color. Beyond the bald, where most of nature was sleeping, we looked out on a vibrant world. When we focused on the broader perspective from this higher place, we saw beauty, not desolation, and above our heads, silhouetted against the blue sky, were the bright red berries of a mountain ash.
In life, as in nature, we experience the beautiful with the mundane or disappointing. Even when we reach the summit of our careers and live out our greatest dreams, they may not be what we expected. In my twenties I thought that my life would be perfect if I could only dance with a modern dance company. I felt I had reached the pinnacle of my success when, finally, that dream came true.
It was a beautiful and inspiring experience, but I experienced a great deal of physical pain and had far more stage fright than I'd ever had acting. The physical aspect of performing was a great disappointment, but from a spiritual and higher perspective, it was very rewarding. At times, dancing was transcendent, and as I taught and choreographed more, I realized it was not the performing I loved most—it was the teaching and making dances.
With time, I became more whole and able to see how the mind and body interacted. This broadened what I could teach others and helped me to improve my health. When I let go of my ego's need to be a performer, I was able to see the value of dance from a higher perspective.
Nature May Remind Us That We Are All One
When my friend and I were hiking, we also went to Craggy Pinnacle, the highest spot in the area where we could see those magnificent mountains from a 360 degree view. There was something about standing in such place that allowed all expectations and focus on self to drop away. We were one with the world that surrounded us. From that place, there were no piles of trash or run down houses or torn up roadways or contentious neighbors. All the details blended with the beauty of nature.
In those moments at the top of the mountain, I forgot about the hillsides that were bare or that the red leaves weren't as red this year as before. I forgot about the aching toe I'd stubbed on the way up or the hours of raking leaves ahead of me as the leaves blanketed my yard. I no longer mattered, for I was not separate from the beauty around me.
Love Opens Us to the Dance of Life
When we can view life from the summit, from a spiritual perspective, we are able to see the wholeness of a situation and love what is there. While my pursuit of dance was originally very ego based, as my mind opened, it became not only a spiritually-enlivening experience, but one that led me to share insights with others so that they could be helped by what I had learned. Reaching the pinnacle was really only the beginning of a life-long journey of learning to love my whole self and others and to discover there is so much more to the dance of life.
If you want to learn more about my journey, my memoir Awakening to the Dance: A Journey to Wholeness is available at Amazon and Create Space.
Have you reached the pinnacle in some area of your life? What did you learn from it? Please share your thoughts.
© 2013 Georganne Spruce ZQT4PQ5ZN7F5
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"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved–loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." Victor Hugo
Do you ever feel that you aren't loving enough? Do you feel that you are a failure if you don't do everything perfectly? Do you feel that you can't be loved for who you really are?
We all need to feel we are loved, and that we are loved despite our imperfections, but often we set standards for ourselves and others that only create more stress and problems. At times we set goals or expectations that are impossible to meet, and when we or our friends don't meet them, it damages our self-esteem and relationships.
Expecting Perfection Can Be Harmful
We all have ideas about the perfect relationship. We may even have a list of requirements that a potential partner or friend must have, but inevitably, if these standards are too high, we are setting up ourselves and our partner for failure. Ultimately what we really want is to be able to make mistakes and still be loved and respected.
Growing up, my parents had high expectations for me. I was intelligent, so they expected me to make A's in school, which I often did. They also taught me to be kind and respectful to others and not to do or say things that would hurt others. As a Southern woman, my role was to take care of others, make them feel good, and put my needs last.
There was a lot of conflict between my parents so I developed the idea that I needed to do everything perfectly to prevent any further conflict. When I achieved what they wanted, I was rewarded with praise. This was before the days when parents bribed their children into doing what they wanted in order to receive toys or electronics.
Setting Standards Of Perfection May Cause Illness
I felt very nervous and fearful much of the time because my parents' conflict was disturbing to me, and sometimes I was punished for what was a fairly small thing because they were so on edge. As a result I became a perfectionist well into adulthood. I experienced a great deal of anxiety around trying to meet high standards in school, relationships, and in work, and with time this stress contributed to my developing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
When we expect too much from ourselves or others, we will inevitably be disappointed at some point. Stress caused by any condition affects our health in a negative way, but I didn't realize the harm I was creating for myself until I attended a clinic where every health practitioner with whom I spoke told me not to be so hard on myself. Fortunately, they convinced me my perfectionist thinking was not healthy.
We Need To Accept Ourselves As We Are
At first, I was angry that they wanted me to lower my high standards. I was proud of having high standards and trying to be a really good person, but I had so little energy, I had no choice but to change. Having to limit my activity forced me to go deeper and explore why I needed to be so perfect. The more I explored this idea, the more I realized I thought I wouldn't be loved or liked if I didn't meet these expectations.
As I moved from believing things had to be done in a certain way to being more open and flexible, I learned to say "no" to situations that were too stressful or not truly beneficial. As I stopped expecting perfection from myself, I realized how difficult life could be for others and grew more empathetic. I learned to expect less from others. I also learned to accept my imperfections while also trying to change some things for the better without judging every step I took.
Loving Ourselves Helps Us To Love Others
I learned to love who I was—even when I was able to do little of what I wanted to do. I learned to love myself as I was. I knew I was doing the best I could everyday despite it being less than I had previously done. As I recovered from the illness, I came to value well-being so much that it became my priority, not what I achieved in the eyes of the world.
Learning to love ourselves compassionately teaches us how to love others, and what we all want most is to be loved for who we really are. As I came to love myself more, I was able to love more generously and accept others' irritating qualities with more compassion. I learned to love them for who they truly were.
The most wonderful love we can experience is with someone who really knows us and accepts our eccentricities and difficult aspects. We know that we do not have to be perfect—that we can be human and make mistakes and still be loved. It also gives us an opportunity to grow in our love, to say, "Well, I didn't handle that well, but I can do better the next time," and to take the time to contemplate a more effective or caring response to the problem that arose.
Love comes From Within Not From Without
I've met many people who do not love themselves, and in order to prove to themselves that they are loving, they exhaust themselves doing good deeds for others. However, when we act in this manner, we aren't acting from love; we are acting from a wounded ego. When we do for others out of love, we do not feel we have to ignore our own needs, and we balance our time between taking care of ourselves and caring for others.
With the exception of abuse, we may grow by learning to accept aspects of our partners and friends that don't always please us. Of course, there are always limits to what is healthy and appropriate in a relationship, but if there truly is enough there to make the relationship good, we need to exercise the effort to accept and hopefully understand those things about our partner that irritate us and have compassion for their struggle.
Wholeness Includes Loving All Of Who We Are
In talking with friends who have been married many years, I am always impressed with how they have grown together, adjusting and changing as needed to make the relationship more workable for both. But it is clear that the one thing that holds them together is this—they know they are each loved for who they truly are, for their best qualities and their most irritating ones.
Learning to give to others what we want in return tends to draw to us that same energy. One of the most profound thoughts I've read in Oneness by Rasha is this: "The key to the self-mastery that is so fervently sought by you who are so keenly aware of your process of evolution, is not to love yourself despite your perceived shortcomings—but rather, to love yourself because of them. In your embracing of all that you Are…is the unconditional gift of wholeness that awaits you." (p. 238)
These challenges we face in relationships reveal to us aspects of ourselves we may rather not see; yet they offer us opportunities for growth and challenges in loving ourselves and others. Let us learn to love all of who we are and share that understanding and love with others. Only love will heal the world.
© 2013 Georganne Spruce ZQT4PQ5ZN7F5
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." E. F. SchumacheR
A few months ago, my life was so full I felt I was in constant motion. I was promoting my memoir Awakening to the Dance: A Journey to Wholenesswith book signings, and I met a wonderful man and began a relationship with him. Combined with the usual things one has to take care of in life, I was fairly overwhelmed. As a result, I stopped going to the spiritual celebration I often attend on Sundays because I needed time for myself.
When We Feel Anger, We Need To Take A Breath
Then one day, I did attend the Sunday celebration, and as I entered the building, I ran into a young man I hardly knew who greeted me. "Good to see you. We haven't seen you in a long time. You did your presentation and sold your books; then you disappeared."
Wow! I'm sure my face was red with the anger I felt. How dare he suggest I just used my community in this way! I'd been there nearly every Sunday for eight years! I hardly knew this person and he knew nothing about my personal life. A dozen angry responses flashed through my mind—but I took a deep breath, decided to be direct, and said, "Well, I was really exhausted after I finished the book. Then I had to do all the promotional stuff, and I'm now in a relationship. I just needed time to take care of myself."
Another person walked up to us and I was able to slip away, thankful that I'd been able to respond with an explanation that would perhaps make him realize his assumption had been wrong. I was also pleased with the restraint I'd shown. When I calmed down and thought about what he had said, I realized it reflected some issue he was struggling with.
Our Issues Are About The Ego
We all have our issues and when those buttons get punched, it is so easy to act in a way we will regret later. Inevitably, if we just react emotionally, without taking a deep breath first, we create more of a problem, making the problem "bigger, more complex, and more violent" as Schumacher suggests. Pausing to take that breath before responding reminds us we are in the moment and need to respond in the moment from the heart, not in response to our injured ego that wants revenge, attention or is responding to our past negative experiences.
In taking that breath, we are also affirming we want peace, and it may allow us to see the source of the discomfort for the other person. Taking a breath allows us to notice the tone of his voice or the expression on his face and that may guide us to respond in a positive way. I realized instantly that the young man who spoke to me knew nothing about my personal life, and that being open to him might create a bridge of understanding.
It Takes Courage To Be Peaceful When Others Are Not
I don't agree with Schumacher that choosing the more peaceful path requires genius. I think it's just common sense, but in a world where we're still fighting wars and most television shows are about violence, it does sometimes take courage to take a different path. It takes courage in order to go against what those around us believe, especially if they are friends or family.
I taught high school English for years and was often appalled by the hateful things teens said to each other, even to their friends. When students chose not to engage in that disrespectful behavior, they were often ostracized, so the penalty for nonconformity was huge.
I once had a student ask me if I thought most people were good. I answered that, yes, I thought most people were basically good. She responded that she didn't agree—she thought most people were mean. With that as the basis of her thinking, it is not surprising that she often responded hatefully to others. She wanted to hurt them before they hurt her.
Our Responses Reflect Who We Are
In the end, though, it doesn't matter whether others are good or hateful. How we respond in every situation is our choice and we have to live with it. We have to decide who we want to be. Do we want to be the one who comes back with a more hateful remark or do we want to be the one who creates a bridge or lets the emotional charge from our opponent die because we choose not to feed their negativity with ours?
Courage Comes From The Heart
When we are in doubt about how to respond to a negative situation, it is always wise to take a breath and consult the heart. Responding out of love and peace is never a bad choice, and it doesn't mean that we are weak by not confronting the anger or hatefulness in another. We can still hold to our point of view, but when we do that from a peaceful base, it is more likely to be heard by others. It may then be possible to turn an argument into a conversation or a misunderstanding into friendship. Courage is most powerful when it comes from the heart.
© 2013 Georganne Spruce ZQT4PQ5ZN7F5
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"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." Eleanor Roosevelt
Do you often try out new activities or ideas? Or do you feel the most content when things remain the same? Have you ever learned anything important from doing something new?
Unlike many people who have one vocation, marriage, or passion in life, I've always been interested in many things. During the time I was a dancer, I was also a teacher, receptionist, employment counselor, and lawyer's assistant, doing whatever I needed to do to pay the rent. Of course, teaching has been my primary profession, but I taught English, dance, drama, and exceptional children.
Curiosity Can Motivate Exploration
After being somewhat of a recluse as a child because of illnesses, as an adult I was always hungry for new experiences. After I started to really explore life, I couldn't stop. Each experience created a curiosity that motivated me to try something else that was new. At times, I was fearful, but I chose not to let that stop me. As a result, I have had a full and rich life.
When we open our minds, many new opportunities present themselves. We can expand our lives simply by being present in these situations. Do we take the time to listen when someone expresses an idea with which we disagree? It's possible that understanding that person's beliefs may expand our thinking so that we are better able to understand people who don't share our beliefs.
Release Fear of Differences
Many of us are afraid of people who are different from us. This cultural disconnect creates many problems that don't need to exist. If we could put aside our fear of what is different and embrace what is similar among us, we could create bridges instead of wars.
Experiencing Other Cultures Expands Our Understanding
In 1994, I was privileged to travel and study in West Africa. It was one of the richest experiences of my life because, for a time, I was immersed in a culture very different from the one where I grew up. It touched me deeply because I saw that it was possible to live a life where art and spirituality were integrated into daily life and where family was of supreme importance. I also saw the ways that stereotypes disregarded the depth and beauty of the people whose lives were rich in ways many westerners' lives were not.
On the daily level, the trip also taught me to appreciate the regularity with which my phone worked, hot water always flowed from the faucet, and a prescription was filled from a pharmacy whenever I needed it. These were not sure things in Africa. But most of all, the trip taught me not to accept others' concepts of people or ideas without doing my own research.
New Experiences Can Deepen Our Spiritual Lives
Because I lived in New Orleans when I traveled to Africa, learning about the historical origins of the city helped me value aspects of the culture I had not appreciated before, such as the origins of Voodoo as a religion, the call and response aspect of Mardi Gras Indian music, and the source of many New Orleans dishes.
My way of dealing with life changed after this trip. I explored my spiritual beliefs more deeply and worked to integrate them into my daily life, believing that this would be a path to greater wholeness, and it was.
Adventures Broaden Our Understanding
When we see life as an adventure, we welcome what is unknown or unfamiliar. Adventure is about going where we have never gone before. (Yes, I was a "Star Trek" fan.) I loved where I grew up in the hills of Arkansas, but when we moved to Tulsa, I learned about the Cherokee's Trail of Tears and the plight of Native Americans elsewhere. When we moved to Memphis in the early 1960s, I experienced the civil rights movement. In every place I lived, I learned and grew in significant ways because each place was different.
The Inner Journey Is As Important As the Outer Journey
When I hear people say they're bored, I'm always puzzled. There are so many things we can do to make life interesting if we are willing to make the effort. Are we willing to take on this responsibility? There are books to read, movies to see, and conversations to initiate. And in this culture, we often think we have to do something all the time. Perhaps we need to learn that just being may be the most interesting thing we can do.
It is not just the outer adventure that can excite us, but the inner one as well. What led me to a point where I felt my life and spirituality were integrated and I felt whole was a spiritual journey where I explored several spiritual practices and stayed open to see whatever showed up as a possible teacher. The journey inward has been as rich and expansive as the outer one.
Adventures Expand Our Human Awareness
Adventures are what we make them. To one person, eating Indian food may be an adventure. To another, living in India is an adventure. But what they all have in common is our willingness to try something new, to open a door that wasn't open before, and peek in or step into a new experience. Even if it isn't a particularly pleasant experience, we learn something we didn't know before and that expands our lives because that's why we're here—to learn all we can about being human.
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Technology continues to be a challenge. I apologize to my subscribers because they didn't receive the blog post last week because I didn't reblog correctly. So, I'm adding another blog on healing first. If you missed last week, please scroll to the second post and read it first. Peace, Love, and Joy to you all, Georganne
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." Carl Jung
How willing are you to be aware of your emotional pain? Do you use pleasant experiences or material things to make you feel better or deaden the pain? Do you have the courage to face and heal the deeper truth?
In the first blog of this series, I wrote about how our wounds often lead us to see what needs to be healed in our lives. Although we see them as part of our emotional darkness, they are gifts. In the second part of the series, I pointed out that we all need love in our lives and that it may come from many sources if we are open to seeing it. Today, I want to write about the importance of letting go of our attachment to the pain we experience.
Fear of Letting go of Pain
Years ago, after a painful divorce, I began seeing a therapist to help me deal with the deep betrayal of my husband. At the time, I was teaching modern dance and dancing with a company and choreographing. As the therapy progressed, I began to feel better about myself and spent less time overwhelmed by negative emotions, but one day I became very upset during a session.
"Sometimes I'm afraid that getting 'well' will destroy my creativity. It's changing something in me, and I don't feel I need to create so much. I feel like I'm losing my creative edge."
"How is it doing that?" my therapist asked.
"Because it's the inner turmoil that makes me want to create. If I get well, I'll have no reason to create!"
"What if being healthy makes you more creative?"
I only shrugged, but as I thought about this, I was unable to imagine how that could be so.
(Excerpted from Awakening to the Dance: A Journey to Wholeness)
Why We Won't Let Go
We all have belief systems that keep us trapped in unhealthy places. That's why many people refuse to get help for their problems. They're afraid to discover what lies in their darkness or are so insecure that they cannot handle the idea that they have done something wrong or are not all right. My mother is a good example. She could not let go of the idea that she wasn't a good Christian if she loved herself. Her entire sense of worth was based on what she did for others. She was a loving person in many ways, but very unhappy and took care of herself only so she wouldn't burden others.
Sometimes, though, we take the risk, and in our process of changing, we begin to feel better and hit another layer of fear that limits our consciousness. We may cling to our negative feelings simply because they are so familiar, just as we cling to negative relationships because they are known and nothing scares us like the unknown. Letting go of these attachments is often a big step.
Becoming Conscious of Our Shadow
Fortunately, though, after my divorce, I liked feeling better more than being in pain and decided that my ideas for dances could come from many sources, even the past negative feelings, for I could remember them, even if I no longer felt them. I filed them away as I would any reference material and took responsibility for making myself happier.
Through therapy and through reading and attending workshops as a member of the Carl Jung Society in New Orleans for ten years, I learned to understand my difficulties and how to resolve them. I learned about the value of what Jung calls, "the Shadow." It is that dark part of ourselves that we don't want to see, but the less conscious we are of it, the more it harms us. Becoming enlightened or conscious requires that we examine and heal it, for when we become conscious of the thoughts or experiences that have caused our pain, we can heal them, then let go and move on.
All Spiritual Healing Requires the Journey Inward
This spiritual journey inward may seem eccentric to some people who have bought into our materialistic society. Eventually, the materialism fails to solve the problems. The drugs that seemed to make us feel better become a destructive addiction. All of the "cures" for our pain only create an illusion of temporary healing. The only true healing takes place when we go within, and that is often true of physical, as well as emotional pain. We have to bring it to the surface, heal it, and let it go.
We can free ourselves only when we become conscious. No one I've read has written more clearly about our pain than Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose in his discussion of the "pain body" and how to heal it. I highly recommend this book. (See Links I Like at the side bar)
What pain have you healed recently? Please comment.
© 2012 Georganne Spruce
Related Articles: Eckhart Tolle Releasing the Pain Body (video), Carl Jung's Concept of the Shadow (related to life), Overcome Your Emotional Roadblocks
Last Week's Blog
Many healing issues have arisen in my life lately, so I intended to write about healing today. I know several people dealing with cancer and others dealing with emotional issues. But when I looked at a series I wrote on this topic last year, I realized I would just repeat what I'd already said. So, I'm reblogging the posts that seem most relevant. I hope they will be helpful. Namaste.
"The wound is the place where the light enters you." Rumi
How tall are the walls you build around yourself? Why do you need so much protection? What will it take to heal your wounds?
It was freezing last night and my bedroom was still cold when I awoke. All I wanted to do was snuggle further into bed, hide out in my pleasant dreams and the warmth. But after briefly indulging my desires, I climbed out of bed, and walking into the center of my house, I was warmed by the brilliant, morning light spilling through the windows.
When life is rough, it is natural to want to hide out, build protective walls, and ignore the source of our pain; yet, if we do that for too long, it can become a dark cave from which we may never emerge. We learn to lie brilliantly to ourselves. We evade capture. And we become hard and defensive around the edges, so that the one thing that can heal us is unable to penetrate. Even the light needs a chink to pass through.
Wounds Are Valuable Assets
How do you deal with your most painful wounds? Do you build walls to protect yourself or do you see the pain as a sign something needs to be healed? Our wounds are some of our most valuable assets. They are the portals through which we can heal the pain that stops us from living our lives fully. We have to learn to dance with them in the dark so that we can dance with them in the light.
Have you ever had the experience that, when a small conflict arises, you suddenly explode or react in some way that is inappropriate to the situation? This is always a sign that a deeper issue has been triggered. It is usually a sign that, deep within us, there are unhealed, deep wounds struggling to reach the light. So, what can we do to heal these wounds?
How To Heal Your Emotional Wounds
Being present is the key. Has this happened before? When did it begin? What was the source of the original pain? There is always fear present with emotional pain, so I try to identify my pain so I can focus on it. Am I afraid I'm not loved? Am I afraid of losing someone or something I value? Am I afraid of being harmed? Regardless of how you identify the fear or don't, the first step is to release it.
Releasing Your Fear
I take a deep breath, and as I exhale, I feel and/or visualize this fear leaving my body. I repeat this process until I do feel the fear released, then sit a moment with the peaceful quiet that appears after the release. Without the fear blocking my mind, I ask that this emotional pain be healed permanently, knowing that my wish will be granted.
Being Patient With the Process
The next step requires the most patience. The pain may be healed immediately. More than likely, though, I will be drawn to those experiences that will guide me through healing myself, and that is very empowering. Healing may come in many forms: a book, a person, a workshop, or technique. Over the years, I have found valuable guidance for healing in therapy, spiritual practices, support groups, healing techniques like Emotional Freedom Technique, affirmations, numerology, astrology, Medicine Wheel cards, and simple conversations with friends. If I'm drawn to it, I dance with it, and in dancing with it, I may be healed.
How Did You Help Create This Wound
This deep pain is the kind we don't want to return, so it is also wise to become aware of the role we played in creating the pain. The answers are always within us. That is why it is important to be receptive, but not passive. We need to ask, "What did I do to help trigger this? What was my role?" Unless we can see the patterns in our behavior, we will repeat them. It is in this step of the healing process that therapy is most valuable. Therapists cannot change you, but they can help you understand your behavior and others. Only you can make the change once you understand what you need to do. Awareness is the key.
It is not always possible to identify our role in creating the pain, for sometimes it is the result of karma from past lives or that we are in a situation in order to learn a lesson. Still, as frightening as it is, we must be willing to be vulnerable—to let the light shine through our journey to understand how to dance the healing dance, the one that we choreograph for our own healing. Love the wound, then let it go.
What techniques have worked well for you in healing emotional pain? Please comment.
© 2012 Georganne Spruce
Related Articles: Eckhart Tolle – Dealing with Pain (video), Shift Your Emotions, Being Present – Healing the Past
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Beloit residents approved plans for the casino by a large margin six years ago.
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Monday's regional approval was a big one.
Right now, it's just an empty field off the Interstate in Beloit; but city manager Larry N. Arft says it may be a major tourist destination in a few short years.
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They are the St. Croix and Bad River Chippewa tribes, who live in northwestern Wisconsin, but chose Beloit as the site of a proposed $200 million dollar Casino complex.
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Linking Oil and War: Review of 'Petro-Aggression'›Guest Contributor // November 18, 2013 // By Rosemary A. Kelanic
The original version of this article appeared in the H-Diplo/ISSF Series.
In Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War, Jeff Colgan provides an indispensable starting point for researchers interested in the relationship between oil and international conflict.
Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War›From the Wilson Center // April 25, 2013 // By Maria Prebble
While there has been much research on the effect of valuable natural resource extraction on a state's domestic development (e.g., the "resource curse"), Wilson Center Fellow Jeff Colgan focuses on how natural resource extraction affects foreign policy. In Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War, Colgan finds that "petrostates" – countries where revenue from oil exports exceeds 10 percent of GDP – are twice as likely to engage in inter-state conflict than non-petrostates.
'National Geographic' Reports on "Water Grabbers" From Mali to India›On the Beat // March 26, 2013 // By Carolyn Lamere
Much ink has been spilled on the growing trend of global land grabs – land purchased en masse in developing countries like Ethiopia by foreigners mainly for agricultural export. But along with land, investors often also gain the right to use local water, and sometimes with little consideration for local livelihoods. Fred Pearce recently looked into these "water grabs" in a series for National Geographic.
'Dialogue' Interviews Caryle Murphy & John Sullivan: Saudi Arabia's Demography & 2013's Big Environment Stories›From the Wilson Center // March 11, 2013 // By Maria Prebble
Dialogue at the Wilson Center tackled demography and the environment last week, interviewing Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Wilson Center public policy scholar Caryle Murphy about her new book, A Kingdom's Future: Saudi Arabia Through the Eyes of Its Twentysomethings, followed by John Sullivan, director of the Environment and Health and Safety News Division for Bloomberg BNA, on the most important energy and environmental issues of 2013.
When Does Oil Cause War? Petro-Aggression and Revolutionary Governments›Guest Contributor // February 6, 2013 // By Jeff Colgan
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In a new book from the Wilson Center, Caryle Murphy asks how, while its neighbors face revolutions, Saudi Arabia has been able to "weather the storm of Arab youth discontent seemingly unscathed."
To find out, Murphy went to the source, interviewing 83 young Saudis between the ages of 19 and 29 in the spring of 2012. She found that "they are by no means a revolutionary lot, preferring gradual, step-by-step change. They want change, but not at the cost of safety and security. Most favor more tolerance for diversity, including in the realm of religion."
Kavita Ramdas: Why Educating Girls Is Not Enough›Dot-Mom // March 15, 2012 // By Stuart Kent"I'm a big proponent of girl's education. I believe that it's a very important and a very valuable human rights obligation that all countries should be meeting," said Kavita Ramdas, executive director for programs on social entrepreneurship at Stanford University, at the Wilson Center. However, "in the past seven to eight years we have found ourselves in a situation where there's kind of an enchantment with girl's education, as though it were the new microenterprise magic bullet to solve everything from poverty, to malnourishment, to inequality."
"The outcomes that we ascribe to girl's education…are not anything that I would argue with," she said, yet, this enchantment "has happened simultaneously with a significant drop in both funding and support for strategies that give girls and women access to reproductive health and choices, particularly family planning."
This is a problem, said Ramdas, because we cannot rely on education alone to do all the heavy lifting required to empower women.
"I think it's important for us to recognize that there are societies where girls and women have achieved significantly high levels of education in which gender inequality remains," she said, "for example, places like Japan and Saudi Arabia, where you have high per capita income, high levels of education, and yet…where women and girls are still marginalized and on the edges in terms of decision making."
"I don't think we have to wait for one to be able to do the other," she said. "As we support programs for girls' education, we also need to demand that those programs be buttressed by strong programs in adolescent health, strong programs in sex education, strong programs that actually provide girls and women with access to family planning and contraception."
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Saudi Arabia's Youth and the Kingdom's Future›From the Wilson Center // February 7, 2012 // By ECSP StaffExcerpts below are from "Saudi Arabia's Youth and the Kingdom's Future," by Caryle Murphy, available for download from the Wilson Center's Middle East Program.
Saudi Arabia is passing through a unique demographic period. …Approximately 37 percent of the Saudi population is below the age of 14. Those under age 25 account for around 51 percent of the population, and when those under 29 are included, young people amount to two-thirds of the kingdom's population. (In the United States, those 14 years and younger are 20 percent of the population; those 29 and below make up 41 percent.)
The country's unprecedented "youth bulge" has not yet crested, which means increasing numbers of job-seekers in coming years. This demographic profile is typical of the Gulf region where around 60 percent of the people are under the age of 30, making it one of the most youthful regions in the world.
If there is one segment of Saudi society pushing aggressively for reforms, it is young women. Their demands for greater personal freedoms and more say in Saudi public life will be the biggest driver of social and economic change in the next few years. This is because the restrictions under which Saudi women live, which collectively come under the rubric of the "guardianship" system, are increasingly running into two obstacles.
One obstacle is resistance from young, educated women who are aware that Muslim women in other countries have more personal freedoms than Saudi females, who are not even allowed to drive.
In addition, the guardianship system, as well as society's strict gender segregation, will be difficult to maintain given the government's often-stated intentions to bring women into the workforce and to create a more diversified, knowledge-based economy less dependent on oil. It is very difficult to have a creative, dynamic, and productive economic system if half the population is segregated and treated like children.
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Caryle Murphy is a public policy scholar with the Wilson Center's Middle East Program and a freelance journalist.
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