Forgiveness

Trying to tap into forgiveness this week. Something I need to work on a lot. I'm checking videos on YouTube but it's mostly religious videos. :/

Here is something I enjoyed:
"Forgiveness is giving up the hope the past could be any different."

RIP Mary Tyler

New Year's Eve retrospective

20 questions for New Year’s Eve

1. What was the single best thing that happened this past year?
2. What was the single most challenging thing that happened?
3. What was an unexpected joy this past year?
4. What was an unexpected obstacle?
5. Pick three words to describe this past year.
6. Pick three words your partner would use to describe your year—don’t ask them; guess based on how you think your spouse sees you.
7. Pick three words your partner would use to describe their year—again, without asking.
8. What were the best books you read this year?
9. Who were your most valuable relationships with?
10. What was your biggest personal change from January to December of this past year?
11. In what way(s) did you grow emotionally?
12. In what way(s) did you grow spiritually?
13. In what way(s) did you grow physically?
14. In what way(s) did you grow in your relationships with others?
15. What was the most enjoyable part of your work (both professionally and at home)?
16. What was the most challenging part of your work (both professionally and at home)?
17. What was your single biggest time waster in your life this past year?
18. What was the best way you used your time this past year?
19. What was biggest thing you learned this past year?
20. Create a phrase or statement that describes this past year for you.

Broken Heart

Interesting article on LA Times about broken hearts:
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/13/opinion/ed-heart13

Being Solitary

"Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement."

— Alice Koller

Shifting Focus

When our personal space feels as if there is no control over its arrangements—the who, what, when, where, and how—the awareness arises that our sense of comfort and security feels diminished. No one can feel comfortable when there is a feeling of powerlessness in the decisions being made about our personal environments. However, you now know more fully what you would desire your personal spaces to become. Have within your reach a few things that bring ease into your experience; music, books, pictures, candles, and whatever else brings forth your sense of Well-Being. Shifting your focus from what you do not like about your situation to what you do have in the Now will actually allow the Universe to synchronize the events that can lead to the changes you desire. Of course you must take action when you’re inspired and guided to do so, but your attention to the positive will set the wheels in motion.

from the app The Sourcerer

Fetal Position

When you sense that your dark night is one of pregnancy and oceanic return, you could react accordingly and be still. Watch and wonder. Take the human embryo as your model. Assume the fetal position, emotionally and intellectually. Be silent. Float in your darkness as if it were the waters of the womb, and give up trying to fight your way out or make sense of it.

from the book Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas Moore