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#4138- Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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You Have To Know
You have to know
how hard it is for caregivers
to watch their loved ones
fade away
one pain at a time.
You have to know
how hard it is to see them
do things for the last time.
To stop doing things like
making love and settle for
a pat on the shoulder.
You have to know.
You have to know how hard it is
to shop and cook and go to the chemo room
and come home to hopelessness and dread
and a life filled with “what if’s?”
You have to know how long the road is
and how cold the empty heart is when
there is no more caregiving left to do.
When you have outlived your job and
find your hours idling on the vine.
You have to know.
You have to know that out of sorrow
comes your own rebirth.
How hard it is to watch yourself be a tiny
embryo of hope; a toddler that falls into
the coffee table and lurches into the street.
You have to know.
You have to know that hope is reborn
when you have to know...because you do.
You know that your only resource is within
and that no one will support you until you
begin to support yourself. So you begin again.
You are caregiving your own spirit now.
You have to know that God Himself is
giving you another chance. That your
loved one is within your heart and dancing
at this chance you are given.
The day you dance again is more than a pat
on the shoulder. It is an affirmation of
your own strength and courage. It is your ticket
to eternity, your own knowing how the game is played.
Not with a losing hand but with a winning spirit.
Not with self-pity but with the grace of God.
Not with hopelessness but an acceptance of
the flow. That’s all there ever was and all
there ever will be.
You have to know.
Vicki Woodyard
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Vicki Woodyard
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4931.html
"No sooner do I conceive of the one than I am illumined by the splendor of the three; no sooner do I distinguish them than I am carried back to the one. When I think of anyone of the three I think of him as the whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking escapes me. I cannot grasp the greatness of that one so as to attribute a greater greatness to the rest. When I contemplate the three together, I see but one torch, and cannot divide or measure out the undivided light.”
contributed by Wayne Ferguson
GUIDED IMAGERY AND NONDUALITY
When people think of guided imagery, they usually recall being asked to picture a relaxing environment, such as a serene beach or a bright meadow. But scripted visualizations are only one approach within of the rich field of imagery.
By contrast, receptive imagery offers no suggested images, and instead is a practice of exquisite awareness of kinesthetic impressions, mental patterns, emotional landscapes, and other subtle perceptions occurring within, and part of, unitive consciousness.
Leslie Davenport’s book, Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery (2009, Celestial Arts/Random House), offers clear, step-by-step instructions in receptive imagery. In addition to the formal practice, the book also includes “Eyes Open Imagery” exercises to mindfully bring awareness into simple, day-to-day moments. Here is an excerpt from the book, one of the 33 “Eyes Open Imagery” practices:
Cultivating an Awareness of Oneness
Notice your breath. At what point does it change from being the air around you to your breath—when it enters your body at the tip of your nose, halfway into your nasal passages, when it fills your lungs? And when does the air around you stop being the sky—when you are in a room? What if the doors and windows are open? And when does the sky stop being the space that stretches throughout the universe? Breathe now without the names and divisions. Just experience the living image of breath that animates.
Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery is available on Amazon:
For more information visit her website: www.LeslieDavenport.com.