tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80727012024-03-13T02:36:41.269-07:00Slow Sonoma, Slow Food, Slow Sex, Wake UP!!!Life is now or never.
Love can be in any and all moments.
Slow Down, for mindful sex, for mindful touch, for mindful eating, for mindful living. Some people in Sonoma know this. Many in Austin and on Orcas Island do. Perhaps, you do , too.chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.comBlogger1157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-78346517464820122582014-12-03T11:23:00.003-08:002014-12-03T11:23:55.038-08:00Relationship Heaven.. Talk and listen. A lotthis from a 6 month course, wherein each month the couple goes through ten days of work three times.<br />
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This is day twelve.<br />
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<br />
The phone number will get you me if you happen to want to radically improve your relationship...<br />
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Cheers...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day Twelve
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is going to be talking back and forth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the beginning of a whole new way of communicating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You stay in your business.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They stay in their business.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You leave any comments, “help,” advice, criticism,
interpretation out of the puzzle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You are going to listen with no plan of responding. They are going
to talk about anything but you and anything but the relationship.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You are going to listen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You are going to talk about anything but<o:p></o:p></div>
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Them<o:p></o:p></div>
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The relationship<o:p></o:p></div>
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What they just talked about.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Three minutes each, back and forth. No feedback. No reflective
listening. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Just listening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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JUST listening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Listening is so rare, and this is listening that isn’t cuing up
for our smart advice, or retort, or additional thing to say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Simply, deeply, fully listen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back and forth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Three times.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eighteen minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You can get in the fun of “not being in the other person’s
business.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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You talk of your day, your goals, your childhood, your
experiences in the present.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They do the same.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You leave each other alone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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TOUCH<o:p></o:p></div>
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Twelve minutes left.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two turns of 2 minutes each, kissing the other anywhere but the
mouth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two turns of 3 minutes each, kissing the other anywhere but the
mouth that they request.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two turns of 1 minute each sharing how it was and the
difference.<o:p></o:p></div>
</span>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-27376987534393651322014-09-25T06:50:00.002-07:002014-09-25T06:50:29.259-07:00waking up to the now of love, the love of now, the ....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We walk by a tree<br />
chattering in our head<br />
about this worry<br />
or that plan<br />
or this future conversation<br />
or that past yammer<br />
<br />
and we miss the tree<br />
<br />
and<br />
if we saw the tree<br />
<br />
really saw<br />
without words,<br />
just the light and the color and all the glimmer<br />
and mystery<br />
<br />
that would be love<br />
<br />
and<br />
<br />
all around us<br />
<br />
and inside us<br />
<br />
there is something, many things<br />
we could be experiencing<br />
<br />
in a direct experience<br />
that would be love<br />
<br />
so<br />
if we quite the yammer<br />
and just experience<br />
<br />
we can be in love<br />
with our toes<br />
or our partner's nose<br />
<br />
and the wall of our apartment<br />
or the floor of<br />
our office<br />
<br />
<br />
and sometims<br />
in this present<br />
we might realize,<br />
we'd like a "better" present<br />
<br />
an office with a window that opened say<br />
and friendly people all around<br />
<br />
okay<br />
that works<br />
<br />
write the goal down<br />
love the goal<br />
<br />
look around you<br />
love it until you've got the better place<br />
<br />
follow your breath<br />
love being alive<br />
<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
this is incomplete<br />
<br />
listen to some Adyashanti talks if you want<br />
the fuller picture<br />
<br />
smile<br />
smile<br />
<br />
sense gravity<br />
<br />
enjoy light<br />
<br />
enjoy sound<br />
<br />
attention on movement<br />
that you invent<br />
<br />
and discover<br />
<br />
hang out in the "I don't know,"<br />
which is another name for the<br />
NOW<br />
<br />
go learn something today<br />
<br />
to meet five new people<br />
<br />
have an adventure<br />
<br />
</span></b>
cheers<br />
Chrischris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-90706755117222153792014-09-16T11:22:00.001-07:002014-09-16T11:22:23.736-07:00I want this for you... I want this for me... I want this for us<b>Many more on relationship and movement,
all about slowing to Reality, though,
at <a href="http://poemsfromnow.com/">PoemsFromNow.com</a></b>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your partner comes up to you and says,<br />
"Let me tell you what's wrong with you."<br />
<br />
You're all ears, right?<br />
<br />
( In some ways of living, actually, you might be,<br />
that might be a chance to be happy with ALL feedback,<br />
and<br />
we'll wait on that one for a bit)<br />
<br />
<br />
Your partner comes up and says:<br />
<br />
"This is what I'd really like:<br />
I'd like us to spend more quality time together<br />
and<br />
I'd like to take a walk after dinner<br />
and<br />
have a make out right now"<br />
<br />
Now you might be listening, eh?<br />
<br />
<br />
Even if we can't go along with a partner's request,<br />
hearing what they want helps us understand who they are.<br />
<br />
This is good news in a relationship,<br />
because we can often drift into assuming we know who the other is,<br />
and then it's two strangers<br />
and then it's lonely really,<br />
though we can keep busy enough to ignore it<br />
<br />
So:<br />
<br />
Here's today's game<br />
<br />
Find someone and for 3-5 turns say this to each other:<br />
<br />
I want this for you.......<br />
<br />
I want this for me......<br />
<br />
<br />
I want this for us......<br />
<br />
<br />
See what happens.<br />
<br />
It's a three way requesting. You don't get left out.<br />
<br />
Your partner doesn't get left out.<br />
<br />
The WE of the two of you doesn't get left out.<br />
<br />
Find out what happens.</span>
<br />
Cheers<br />
Crhischris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-53958140648194972402014-09-09T09:44:00.002-07:002014-09-09T09:44:18.784-07:00Waking Up to Now.... day 2the full series will be at, <a href="http://PoemsFromNow.com">PoemsFromNow.com</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today's a day to smile<br />
<br />
It's good for us.<br />
We know it.<br />
People around us know it.<br />
<br />
So: when to smile.<br />
When you see another person.<br />
When you see a cloud, or a leaves or the sky.<br />
<br />
That's one game to play today:<br />
See people, see reflected light: smile.<br />
<br />
Another is this:<br />
Sit quietly and sense your entire right leg, from toes,<br />
all the toes<br />
to the hip joint<br />
Eyes closed<br />
Then, keep the leg in awareness and start with your right fingers<br />
and move up through your right arm to the right<br />
shoulder socket.<br />
<br />
Enjoy the whole right arm and the whole left leg<br />
<br />
Breathe<br />
<br />
Add on sounds.<br />
Add on awareness of breathing , your breathing as you hear sounds.<br />
<br />
Open your eyes.<br />
<br />
Now the main game of the day:<br />
Sense your right arm and right leg all day,<br />
as much and<br />
as fully as you can.<br />
<br />
Talking<br />
walking<br />
reading this<br />
sending emails<br />
doing the text/ phone thing<br />
driving<br />
eating<br />
<br />
right arm<br />
right leg<br />
<br />
they aren't going any where<br />
<br />
where is your attention?<br />
<br />
bring it on home, for the fun<br />
and grounding<br />
and freeing of it<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This will be lopsided, yes,<br />
and being mindless is<br />
more lopsided, don't you think.<br />
<br />
<br />
You can smile and eat light while you do<br />
this,<br />
if you wish.
</span>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-47870042685555244542014-06-21T07:34:00.002-07:002014-06-21T07:34:58.512-07:00love 'making"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I like the term love making<br />
<br />
love is worth<br />
making<br />
<br />
making better<br />
<br />
making more conscious<br />
<br />
making more communicative<br />
<br />
<br />
what if every communication<br />
were a<br />
chance<br />
to<br />
"make"<br />
<br />
love more real<br />
<br />
what if the various thrashings around<br />
under the sheets<br />
were<br />
slowed<br />
slowed<br />
slowed<br />
<br />
way down<br />
<br />
and the big huff and puff to climax<br />
were sidestepped<br />
<br />
and in<br />
the slow<br />
slow<br />
slow<br />
<br />
the making<br />
of the WE<br />
that baby of US<br />
<br />
were what was important?<br />
<br />
wouldn't that be a worthwhile way<br />
to waste time<br />
in the flesh<br />
<br />
or in<br />
the talk<br />
<br />
or in<br />
the silence<br />
of non talk<br />
not touch<br />
<br />
but together<br />
<br />
making....<br />
<br />
what?<br />
<br />
ah, discovery<br />
<br />
</span>
<br />
goodchris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-1709511855481728702014-06-16T08:23:00.004-07:002014-06-16T08:23:59.846-07:00talking about sexfrom the main blog, <a href="http://poemsfromnow.com/">http://PoemsFromNow.com</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">okay<br />
admit it<br />
<br />
you don't talk about sex<br />
<br />
you wish about it<br />
you might complaint about it<br />
or whine about it<br />
<br />
and so<br />
what?<br />
<br />
no one's perfect<br />
( remember the end of Some Like it Hot)<br />
<br />
<br />
and<br />
let's have this be one of the talk games:<br />
<br />
as you remember<br />
perhaps,<br />
<br />
as part of love and sex before dinner<br />
you are spending a grueling 18 minutes a day<br />
ACTUALLY TALKING TO &<br />
LISTENING TO<br />
YOUR PARTNER<br />
<br />
you talk 3 minutes, they listen,<br />
in the present,<br />
no interrupting<br />
<br />
they talk for 3 minutes,<br />
you listen<br />
in the present,<br />
no interrupting,<br />
and as<br />
much as possible, no words in your head (aka "thinking") about<br />
how you are going to respond<br />
<br />
back and forth,<br />
3 whole turns each<br />
18 minutes<br />
<br />
it seems so piddling<br />
<br />
and most partners talk less than this<br />
in a week<br />
except plans,<br />
day recitals,<br />
grumbles about work,<br />
blah blah<br />
<br />
so<br />
here's today:<br />
<br />
in your talk:<br />
<br />
tell what you like about your sex<br />
with your partner<br />
<br />
and<br />
talk about what more, or different<br />
that you'd like<br />
<br />
and respond<br />
(without thinking about it while<br />
they are talking)<br />
to whatever they say to you<br />
<br />
and even,<br />
curiosity being a component of love<br />
and the now,<br />
ask some questions in<br />
your turn<br />
</span>
<br />
enjoy<br />
<br />
chrischris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-56584306286095715792014-06-13T09:50:00.004-07:002014-06-13T09:50:45.978-07:00a touching experiment: slow down and touch, take turns<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This posting Also to be found in <a href="http://poemsfromnow.com/">http://PoemsFromNow.com</a>, with many others on love, sex, communication, and movement</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and being present</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">slowing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">down....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anything in life can be improved<br />
by<br />
being present<br />
<br />
many a disaster can be forestalled or<br />
avoided<br />
by being present<br />
<br />
many/ all messes can be cleared up<br />
by slowing down<br />
and<br />
becoming present<br />
<br />
today,<br />
we're back to the touching before dinner<br />
<br />
ten minutes of making out<br />
or<br />
some<br />
sort of sex<br />
<br />
we'll let the sex be up in the air<br />
for awhile<br />
<br />
while you practice slowing down<br />
and taking turns<br />
<br />
taking turns,<br />
almost like the communication<br />
<br />
well,<br />
exactly like the communication<br />
but without any words<br />
<br />
you might want to spend more than ten minutes with this<br />
<br />
get your trusty timer<br />
<br />
one of you lie down<br />
and close your eyes<br />
<br />
the other is to touch you<br />
slowly<br />
not in the genitals,<br />
and yes<br />
anywhere else<br />
and everywhere else in your body<br />
<br />
for the first day,<br />
don't make any requests if you are the receiver while you are receiving<br />
<br />
play like this:<br />
<br />
first turn:<br />
<br />
one touches,<br />
the other feels<br />
<br />
the timer goes off<br />
<br />
the other one touches,<br />
the other feels<br />
<br />
second turn:<br />
<br />
no words of wishing anything different in the first round,<br />
but before each touching turn,<br />
the receiver is to ask:<br />
<br />
here is how I'd like to be touched ( firm, soft, tight, gentle, fast, slow, big movements, little movements) and here is where I'd like it to be concentrated<br />
<br />
the toucher can honor that, or not<br />
<br />
it seems kind of silly not to,<br />
but really, a request has to be really open<br />
if it's truly a request<br />
<br />
after,<br />
just a thank you,<br />
no evaluation<br />
<br />
and then swap around<br />
<br />
<br />
third turn:<br />
make a request before you receive, and for sure make in a different request,<br />
different place<br />
different modes of speed, pressure, length<br />
<br />
And then<br />
as many turns as you want,<br />
keep going back and forth,<br />
<br />
and each time ask for a new place<br />
and a new set of operating procedures<br />
<br />
....<br />
we get into such ruts<br />
in sex<br />
and<br />
in life<br />
<br />
and we ask so rarely for what we want<br />
<br />
and we are so worried that if we finally get on a good grove,<br />
going anywhere else will blow the whole scene apart<br />
<br />
touch is talking<br />
receiving touch is listening<br />
<br />
have the final turn,<br />
if you wish,<br />
no requests,<br />
but just let the toucher be trying to tell the receiver<br />
something<br />
<br />
let the communication be quite<br />
and skin level<br />
<br />
see what happens<br />
feel what happens<br />
<br />
don't talk for awhile after this,<br />
so if this is to be combined with a talking session before dinner,<br />
do the talking session first</span>
<br />
goodchris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-88167612980106357002014-05-07T13:45:00.000-07:002014-05-07T13:45:16.776-07:00Will I ever come back to Sonoma?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will I ever come back to Sonoma?<br />
<br />
It doesn't seem likely now, unless I started an Institute there. And then, our at the edges of town, but not quite as isolated as the Sonoma Zen Center,<br />
could<br />
be<br />
the future home of the Mindfulness Living Institute.<br />
<br />
Water<br />
Housing<br />
Mindfulness<br />
the Work of Byron Katie<br />
Gardening<br />
Organic veggies, fruit and meat<br />
Programs<br />
<br />
And the people to do all this.<br />
And the people to come.<br />
<br />
What a big circus of fun that could be.<br />
And right now:<br />
this seems impossible.<br />
<br />
So, that's a good start.<br />
<br />
"This is impossible."<br />
<br />
Is that true?<br />
I don't know.<br />
<br />
Can I absolutely know that that is true?<br />
No.<br />
<br />
When I hold that thought and believe it, what happens?<br />
Discouraged.<br />
Close down.<br />
"Skip it."<br />
Scoffing at myself.<br />
Imagine derisive voices.<br />
<br />
And then,<br />
<br />
If I didn't have that thought, and contemplated the idea of a Center in Sonoma ( or Hawaii, or Mexico, or Costa Rica),<br />
it's a curious possibility.<br />
<br />
Not something I want to work on right yet,<br />
but something to mull in the background now and then.<br />
<br />
And what will come of that?<br />
<br />
<br />
I don't know.<br />
<br />
<br />
The turn around ( we are doing the <a href="http://thework.com/">Work of Byron Katie</a>, here):<br />
It is possible.<br />
<br />
Really?<br />
Who knows?</span>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-31442214345765092412013-09-17T20:15:00.003-07:002013-09-17T20:17:17.892-07:00When there;s nothing to say<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">when there's nothing to say...</span><br />
<div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">say nothing</span></div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">
</span>
<div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">..</span></div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">
<div>
or say, "I love you?"</div>
<div>
...</div>
<div>
or say, "What's good in your life?<br />
.. </div>
<div>
or say, "I don't know what to say, but I like you."</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
...</div>
<div>
say, the truth, as you feel it,</div>
<div>
in that moment</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
and then listen,</div>
<div>
just as happy to get nothing,</div>
<div>
as you were to speak</div>
<div>
for </div>
<div>
it</div>
<div>
or speak from </div>
<div>
it</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
and it here isn't fancy,</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
it's just emptiness coming out to do the</div>
<div>
next</div>
<div>
thing</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
not even the next right </div>
<div>
thing,</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
just the next</div>
<div>
felt thing</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
as we go</div>
<div>
along</div>
<div>
living and becoming more</div>
<div>
and</div>
<div>
more</div>
<div>
or who </div>
<div>
we always were</div>
<div>
before the</div>
<div>
extra got caked on</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
by others</div>
<div>
and</div>
<div>
our own suckered into it</div>
<div>
choosing</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Good</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
say the next thing</div>
<div>
say nothing</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
the world will keep spinning</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
your life will still be rich and full of meaning</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
you will still be present</div>
<div>
or not</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
and one is free</div>
<div>
and one isn't</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
and that's okay,</div>
<div>
too</div>
<div>
<div>
<br /></div>
</div>
</span>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-27382505843311305872013-09-16T20:00:00.001-07:002013-09-16T20:01:17.812-07:00asking each day, to find out who is real and what we really are<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>if we are living right, we should be getting<br />
at least one "No" a day<br />
to some request we are making for something that<br />
pushes some edge<br />
<br />
"Would you like to OM?"<br />
"Would you like to make out?"<br />
"Would you like to make out for X minutes?"<br />
"Would you like to have sex?"<br />
"Would you like to spend the night together?"<br />
"Would you give me your phone number?"<br />
"Would you go to ..... with me?"<br />
<br />
This kind of thing in the relationship world, and this:<br />
<br />
"I offer ..... for $.......Would you like to buy?"<br />
<br />
That's a good one, too.<br />
<br />
That keeps things high sensation. And if we don't know yet how to ask and get turned on by our asking and let the yes / no chips fall where they may, we con't quite know how to live yet, don't you think?<br />
<br />
Don;t you feel that that's true?<br />
For you?</b></span>schris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-8275896554317879932013-09-04T20:25:00.001-07:002013-09-04T20:25:23.814-07:00living in the presence of high sensations = alive, alive, alive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we came from the jungle<br />
ADD, the jumping of attention from one thing to another<br />
would seem useful in a wild environment, when any direction<br />
including up and down, could yield danger,<br />
could yield food<br />
<br />
life was intense<br />
awareness was high<br />
or<br />
you died<br />
<br />
and then life<br />
got safer<br />
and safer<br />
and safer<br />
<br />
and so when someone says:<br />
what was the flavor of your last kiss?<br />
we finally feel something,<br />
the lights go on,<br />
the charge comes back<br />
the jungle<br />
<br />
walk barefoot on uneven ground,<br />
find a place where you have to look up and down,<br />
spin daily, or more,<br />
touch the ground and keep your eyes up<br />
high,<br />
touch the sky and let your eyes watch the ground<br />
<br />
play around<br />
<br />
with the habits<br />
with the right way to do things,<br />
where "right" means "comfortable" means "rocking no one's boat"<br />
means<br />
low sensation<br />
<br />
so, what's the cure?<br />
do something not right today.<br />
<br />
but kindly<br />
other people count too<br />
<br />
fucking with people is not the game<br />
not really<br />
though it might,<br />
in small doses,<br />
be a stage<br />
<br />
but we've got to get more uncomfortable,<br />
which means saying what we really really want to<br />
say<br />
which is different than using our umpf to blast<br />
other people because they dare be different than we want<br />
them<br />
to<br />
behave<br />
<br />
give up control<br />
talk about uncomfortable<br />
talk about not knowing what going to happen next<br />
talk about living in freedom<br />
which can be defined as<br />
"I don't know."<br />
<br />
this is a ridiculous little ramble<br />
and what's the point?<br />
<br />
Don't be too careful<br />
don't be too good<br />
make yourself uncomfortable<br />
hang in there with the sensation<br />
<br />
it's just you in the present moment<br />
which is<br />
just<br />
life<br />
<br />
which is just<br />
everything<br />
<br />
</span>
Goodchris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-19886592888597476042013-08-27T20:41:00.002-07:002013-08-27T20:41:28.029-07:00slow down for what? freedom and happiness. Really? Yes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How free are you?<br />
How could you be more free?<br />
<br />
What would be the price?<br />
What is the price of not paying the price?<br />
<br />
How happy are you?<br />
How could you be more happy?<br />
<br />
What would be the price?<br />
What is the price of not paying the price?<br />
</span></b>
Good.chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-41900249729892716342013-07-03T13:49:00.002-07:002013-07-03T13:51:16.016-07:00Sex Every Day? Heck yes/ Slow Sex rocks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ah, sex.<br />
<br />
In the ordinary world, people let down their barriers a bit, and actually become fascinated with another person, and excited by the new, and they fall in love, and they have sex.<br />
<br />
Usually a lot.<br />
<br />
The honeymoon/ bunny phase.<br />
<br />
And then, one or the other starts to get tired, and it's a lot more than that. One or the other, and usually both, starts to harbor resentments, and they are damned if they are going to give the partner pleasure, even if it means denying their own pleasure to spite/ punish/ withdraw from the partner.<br />
<br />
And they have "spontaneous" moments, when they forget the tired, and forget the grudges, and remember how great sex can be, and tumble back into frolic together.<br />
<br />
Love making.<br />
Sex.<br />
Fucking.<br />
<br />
Maybe all three.<br />
<br />
Yum.<br />
<br />
And the set ups to these "spontaneous" sex capades are usually a night at a movie, no change to talk/ argue/ avoid on iPhone during the movie. They might even hold hands. Emotions might come up that they share. They have an experience together.<br />
<br />
Wallah. Sex.<br />
<br />
Or they go to a party, and flirt a little and get some sexual energy up, and go home and need to blow it off. Or, like most people, want to flirt, and don't, and have all that energy to use in sex.<br />
<br />
Or they drink a little wine with dinner, and the kids go to bed easily and early and they actually have a talk that they both enjoy, and actually look at each other in the eye and feel the living warmth of the other.<br />
<br />
A day on the beach.<br />
<br />
And so on.<br />
<br />
And then there are all those other days when the "spontaneous" thing doesn't happen.<br />
<br />
And that's where "Sex Every Day" comes in.<br />
<br />
It's not mood dependent, it's not tried/ not tried dependent, it's not good or bad mood dependent.<br />
<br />
The couple decides: Sex Every Day.<br />
<br />
And they keep this in motion with OM, with Orgasmic Meditation.<br />
15 minutes of stroking the woman's clitoris<br />
In a nest.<br />
Separate from the bed.<br />
Now one is trying to climax.<br />
It's only her genitals.<br />
The timer going off means it's over.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This happens every day.<br />
<br />
Touch, connection, turn on.<br />
Staying present to the sensation.<br />
Staying connected to each other.<br />
Pleasure ( usually) for her.<br />
Connection ( and usually more) for him.<br />
<br />
This might bring about lots more spontaneous "normal" sex.<br />And if it doesn't, the urgency is down, the loneliness is down, connection is way up\<br />
<br />
This is good.</span></span>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-22583878702209639242013-06-24T12:45:00.000-07:002013-06-24T12:53:54.266-07:00Dynamic Relating ( Slow, Long Game, Variable) vs Fixed Relating ( fast because it's programmed, short game)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">RELATIONSHIP AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE<br />
<br />
Chang from the paradigm of playing for each others captivity to playing for each others freedom by changing the perspective from Fixed to Dynamic Relating.<br />
<br />
<br />
FIXED:<br />
<br />
<br />
1, Concept driven, predictable and secure, two halves of a whole<br />
<br />
2. Fixed roles where the purpose is to feel loved.<br />
<br />
3. Trust means others should live up to your expectations, always trying to be "good" <br />
<br />
4. Angry at others ( or , big baby, "hurt") when they aren't "doing it our way, " the way we "trusted" (= imagined) they "should" do it<br />
<br />
5 Angry/ hurt when we aren't in control.<br />
<br />
6. Relationship is disposable, better at the beginning<br />
<br />
7. Both agree to conform to fixed concepts<br />
<br />
8. Control / love with conditions<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
DYNAMIC:<br />
<br />
<br />
1. Desire-driven, following the next right step, two wholes coming together, secure in themselves<br />
<br />
2. Spherical relating that begins at and returns to Friend where the purpose is to love.<br />
<br />
3. Trust others to be who they are, willing to be messy <br />
<br />
4. Curious about others when their way is different than our way. Amused at our old "hurt" programming and see it as a childhood left behind.<br />
<br />
5. Excited and the upside of freefall when we aren't in control ( call it orgasm, what the hell)<br />
<br />
6. Relationship is eternal, stay connected no matter what the form, always best in the now<br />
<br />
7. Both agree to be truthful, willing to negotiate, learn, and wake up<br />
<br />
8. (Unconditional) Love
</span></span>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-23077305196184767012012-09-21T16:04:00.001-07:002012-09-21T16:06:59.723-07:00Equinox and the geese are not being good, why should you<h3 class="post-title entry-title">
a real poem for once: You do not have to be good... the is Mary Oliver, who writes the real shit,, partly because she is out, deep in nature, every day, every day, deep, and she listens to the empty wisdom of the world<br /><br />here is what she heard one day</h3>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wild Geese<br /><br /><b>You do not have to be good.<br />You do not have to walk on your knees<br />For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.<br />You only have to let the soft animal of your body<br />love what it loves.<br />Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.<br />Meanwhile the world goes on.<br />Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain<br />are moving across the landscapes,<br />over the prairies and the deep trees,<br />the mountains and the rivers.<br />Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,<br />are heading home again.<br />Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,<br />the world offers itself to your imagination,<br />calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --<br />over and over announcing your place<br />in the family of things.<br /><br />~ Mary Oliver </b>~<br /><br />My feelings: I love Mary Oliver.<br />I feel soft and free when I read this, as if someone understands.<br />I am weary of being good, even the being good of "not being good."<br />I am<br />Grateful,
I have found my gang, in which the soft animal of my body can love what
it loves, and the soft ocean of my heart can swish and swirl in many
and all directions, not necessarily knowing where it's going, but
reaching more and more connection, finding the joyous scary peaceful
thrill in the family of all things.<br />ALL things.<br />love,<br />Chris</span></span>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-83785514565256277952012-09-15T05:20:00.000-07:002012-09-15T05:21:07.493-07:00what is the key to a good life?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">what is the key to a good life?<br />
<br />
perhaps this:<br />
realizing you are going to die,<br />
and hence,<br />
you are alive,<br />
and hence,<br />
can be experiencing one and only one<br />
moment:<br />
<br />
now</span></span>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-59121516740466690252012-08-08T08:09:00.002-07:002012-08-08T08:09:49.660-07:00Sneaky marriage, rotten divorce, troubled life... alas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
I'm going to try something new in August.<br />
This mode: story<br />
antidote<br />
poem<br />
<br />
We'll see.<br />
Here it goes.<br />
Like this.<br />
<br />
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Joe and Sally have a sneaky marriage, both having affairs, and, of course, </div>
<div style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
blaming the other
for their unhappiness.<br />
This leads to a sullen divorce, which exhausts them, but...<br />
they feel free..<br />
liberated.<br />
<br />
At last the green pasture is wide open. And they find someone SOOO much better.<br />
<br />
Except the pattern is their: problems can be so sweetly avoided by a little side sex,<br />
and then bigger problems can be avoided by a torrid affair and then this green<br />
pasture wasn't so great after all.<br />
<br />
And must be left behind.<br />
As is the next.<br />
And the next.<br />
And the next.<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Antidote/ teaching:<br />
Clean up this mess, or the green pastures we see will turn into one more gravel pit.<br />
<br /></div>
And a poem:<br />
<br />
<div style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
if you are wrong<br />
and I don't have to listen<br />
and I can get so much fun<br />
in someone else's bed<br />
<br />
why should I learn<br />
how my thoughts and actions<br />
help you be a worse you<br />
that you want to be<br />
<br />
how can I learn<br />
what I could have done and known<br />
and tried<br />
to love you better<br />
<br />
even if we need to part<br />
if I can't love you<br />
(the famous, "love your enemy" schtick of either<br />
Christianity, or the Work of Byron Katie...<br />
in one a preaching<br />
in the other a result)<br />
<br />
then I haven't really figured out how<br />
to love myself<br />
and so the next one,<br />
the sooooo much better one<br />
will eventually<br />
(what with sex not forbidden<br />
and communication not learned<br />
passion burns out<br />
and intimacy<br />
which is what relationship is all about<br />
doesn't grow)<br />
that one falls apart<br />
<br />
and the next<br />
and the next <br />
<br />
and it's the same<br />
old<br />
thing<br />
again<br />
and again<br />
<br />
<br />
alas:<br />
<br /></div>
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
and the way out:<br />
Clean up this mess.<br />
Don't finish your divorce,<br />
or better yet,<br />
even start,<br />
until you can<br />
"love your enemy."<br />
<br />
You don't have to live with them,<br />
but if you don't love them,<br />
you'll never really leave them.<br />
<br />
Aha.<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
<br />
<br />
Good.chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-2915724365879890942012-07-20T08:00:00.000-07:002012-07-20T08:00:57.792-07:00Day 20 on mindfulness jag<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(This is day 20, of 31 July postings about mindfulness, all at <a href="http://poemsfromnow.com/">http://PoemsFromNow.com</a>)</div>
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If we are trying to stay present,
and we are "just" there,<br />
just now,<br />
just experiencing, awaring, nowing<br />
the now of now<br />
<br />
and all that<br />
it's a quiet place<br />
<br />
looking at a tree doesn't<br />
come with a voice narration,<br />
unless we are talking inside,<br />
<br />
going about our business<br />
doesn't come with voice narrations<br />
on "I didn't do this well enough,"<br />
or<br />
"I wonder what so and so thinks<br />
about this and that I did or said."<br />
and the old bugaboo:<br />
"I wonder if so and so even likes<br />
me"<br />
<br />
and then we aren't present<br />
<br />
good,<br />
we can be present to our discomfort<br />
and feel the voice inside has something to do with it<br />
<br />
today's game:<br />
<br />
coming to the arms and legs and spine present<br />
and sending a little "I love you"<br />
"I approve of you"<br />
to ourselves,<br />
and then returning to as much silence<br />
as we can find<br />
<br />
not affirmation<br />
not over and over,<br />
just a shot of love<br />
a shot of approval<br />
for our thinking, our feeling, our awaring ,<br />
our forgetting to aware,<br />
whatever we are at that moment,<br />
loving it<br />
<br />
and then moving on<br />
<br />
all restlessness<br />
unhappiness<br />
worry<br />
doubt<br />
<br />
all that converted into<br />
self love<br />
<br />
and then back to arms and fingers, legs and toes, spine and pelvis<br />
head,<br />
<br />
grounded in the bones<br />
add on the breathing if you wish<br />
<br />
and listen for the happiness in<br />
the silence<br />
<br />
and when the unsilence comes:<br />
"I love you"<br />
"I approve"<br />
"You are wonderful"<br />
<br />
Just a little whisper of self love<br />
<br />
that's all<br />
<br />
"Just" a whisper<br />
<br />
and hey: let's add a Thich Nhat Hahn thing:<br />
a hint of a smile on the outbreath as and after<br />
we sent the whisper<br />
<br />
"just" a hint of a smile<br />
<br />
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<br /></div>
goodchris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-67807128450014470302012-06-28T14:01:00.000-07:002012-06-28T14:01:06.866-07:00slowing, or not, at Whole Foods on computer with blueberries at left hand<div style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Home internet is off for a bit.
This means I get to come to Whole Foods<br />
and eat avocado and blueberries<br />
while I write up today's constant contact newsletter.<br />
<br />
Hmmm.<br />
Eating and working on the computer.<br />
<br />
There is a story of a Zen student<br />
questioning his master,<br />
who was eating and reading at the same time.<br />
"I thought," said the student,<br />
"That when you eat, you eat.<br />
And when you read, you read.<br />
Isn't that what we were taught?"<br />
<br />
The Zen master stuffed a little more blueberries<br />
into his mouth,<br />
grinned and chewed happily and then said,<br />
"Yes, and when I eat and read,<br />
I eat and read."<br />
<br />
Alas, I wasn't "awake" at the both of them,<br />
and either were a temptation to not really be awake<br />
but to be lost in translation<br />
lost in action<br />
lost in the rolling ahead of life,<br />
as it were.<br />
<br />
And it's a good life,<br />
blueberries,<br />
it's a good life,<br />
computer Internet nonsense.<br />
<br />
And....<br />
the awake life vibrates<br />
or resonates<br />
or glows<br />
or something<br />
<br />
<br />
What is it for you?<br />
<br />
Here, for me, it's slower<br />
and richer<br />
and easier<br />
no "worry" about the famous<br />
"what's next?"<br />
nor about<br />
"am I doing it right"<br />
nor<br />
"am I getting enough done"<br />
<br />
it's just<br />
....<br />
life<br />
<br />
which is the present<br />
the miracle<br />
the joy<br />
the yes<br />
<br />
<br />
good </div>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-22508419844013186342012-06-19T18:21:00.001-07:002012-06-19T18:21:24.566-07:00hi Sonoma, hello life::::: Each day offers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAHqM4u8ObXjZve4lrLRebm0YIjafEV00agZhIAxsC9060E-SsQF58FP0wTaHrs324Kmiqnea0L47fGMWIOXKnQeMxDOxXp8HyUX8i6TyzWpVkbAf4b4Nu8TlV4rlFzpJzwMlg/s1600/IMG_0967.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAHqM4u8ObXjZve4lrLRebm0YIjafEV00agZhIAxsC9060E-SsQF58FP0wTaHrs324Kmiqnea0L47fGMWIOXKnQeMxDOxXp8HyUX8i6TyzWpVkbAf4b4Nu8TlV4rlFzpJzwMlg/s320/IMG_0967.JPG" width="320" /></a>
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<div style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
each day offers
<br />
choices:<br />
now<br />
or not<br />
<br />
happy<br />
or arguing with reality<br />
<br />
clear<br />
or befudled<br />
<br />
fun thing is this:<br />
we're just fine,<br />
even in the "wrong" choices<br />
<br />
can we can always<br />
"wake up" and notice what we did,<br />
what we are going<br />
<br />
coming back<br />
"home"<br />
not even my choice<br />
but almost by scent<br />
as if the smell of Life<br />
is luring us<br />
back<br />
back<br />
back<br />
to the truth<br />
of Now</div>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-1128371041580932052012-05-03T23:11:00.000-07:002013-06-24T12:49:59.320-07:00INDEX OF POSTINGS (1067, so far)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZNt1mOBY1cSPnPR79RbZw0pB89t7lwz73vo4dbPZ8Yl5BvhuifhhsWAHKYUS166mWJ1cEajPRrWdsOLXunKVTGKRteyl5U1j636JFEwrUcdQt8x0L5FrxA8E5_bEJ4H_yIpQ9/s1600-h/DSCF0025.JPG"><img alt="single rose" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265245289153333154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZNt1mOBY1cSPnPR79RbZw0pB89t7lwz73vo4dbPZ8Yl5BvhuifhhsWAHKYUS166mWJ1cEajPRrWdsOLXunKVTGKRteyl5U1j636JFEwrUcdQt8x0L5FrxA8E5_bEJ4H_yIpQ9/s320/DSCF0025.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; height: 240px; width: 320px;" width="360" /></a><br />
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INDEX</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">JUNE 2013</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1067. June 14: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cdiv%20class=%22separator%22%20style=%22clear:%20both;%20text-align:%20center;%22%3E%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOvk6kTyVBsd6Xb91e9QzGnF9lRcX7c-1haAuWrbWftSOSW-TjEbuBY5Gj2n64APLQU_KMlmAwCjhHzhWLOqoFpK7jo1aHclay77Ik2YHve2yvxaaA7S3kWcBDMNXwG_XLF7Pe/s1600/DSCF0132.JPG%22%20imageanchor=%221%22%20style=%22margin-left:%201em;%20margin-right:%201em;%22%3E%3Cimg%20border=%220%22%20height=%22360%22%20src=%22http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eUVyr2jVzCg/Tywvf7mLbqI/AAAAAAAACik/qhMpz1Vba2g/s320/DSCF0132.JPG%22%20width=%22500%22%20/%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/div%3E%20%3Cspan%20style=%22color:%20purple;%22%3E%3Cspan%20style=%22font-family:%20%22Trebuchet%20MS%22,sans-serif;%22%3ERELATIONSHIP%20AS%20A%20SPIRITUAL%20PRACTICE%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20Chang%20from%20the%20paradigm%20of%20playing%20for%20each%20others%20captivity%20to%20playing%20for%20each%20others%20freedom%20by%20changing%20the%20perspective%20from%20Fixed%20to%20Dynamic%20Relating.%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20FIXED:%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%201,%20Concept%20driven,%20predictable%20and%20secure,%20two%20halves%20of%20a%20whole%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%202.%20Fixed%20roles%20where%20the%20purpose%20is%20to%20feel%20loved.%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%203.%20Trust%20means%20others%20should%20live%20up%20to%20your%20expectations,%20always%20trying%20to%20be%20%22good%22%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%204.%20Angry%20at%20others%20(%20or%20,%20big%20baby,%20%22hurt%22)%C2%A0%20when%20they%20aren%27t%20%22doing%20it%20our%20way,%20%22%20the%20way%20we%20%22trusted%22%20(=%20imagined)%20they%20%22should%22%20do%20it%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%205%20Angry/%20hurt%20when%20we%20aren%27t%20in%20control.%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%206.%20Relationship%20is%20disposable,%20better%20at%20the%20beginning%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%207.%20Both%20agree%20to%20conform%20to%20fixed%20concepts%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%208.%20Control%20/%20love%20with%20conditions%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20DYNAMIC:%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%201.%20Desire-driven,%20following%20the%20next%20right%20step,%20two%20wholes%20coming%20together,%20secure%20in%20themselves%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%202.%20Spherical%20relating%20that%20begins%20at%20and%20returns%20to%20Friend%20where%20the%20purpose%20is%20to%20love.%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%203.%20Trust%20others%20to%20be%20who%20they%20are,%20willing%20to%20be%20messy%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%204.%20Curious%20about%20others%20when%20their%20way%20is%20different%20than%20our%20way.%20Amused%20at%20our%20old%20%22hurt%22%20programming%20and%20see%20it%20as%20a%20childhood%20left%20behind.%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%205.%20Excited%20and%20the%20upside%20of%20freefall%20when%20we%20aren%27t%20in%20control%20(%20call%20it%20orgasm,%20what%20the%20hell)%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%206.%20Relationship%20is%20eternal,%20stay%20connected%20no%20matter%20what%20the%20form,%20always%20best%20in%20the%20now%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%207.%20Both%20agree%20to%20be%20truthful,%20willing%20to%20negotiate,%20learn,%20and%20wake%20up%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%208.%20(Unconditional)%20Love%20%20%20%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E">Fixed vs Dynamic Relating: Back in the game, fast vs slow and mindful</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">AUGUST 2012</span></b><br />
<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1066. August 8: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/08/sneaky-marriage-rotten-divorce-troubled.html">Sneaky marriage, troubled divorce, rough life: story time for adults</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">JULY 2012</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1065. July20: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-20-on-mindfulness-jag.html">Mindfulness and Self Love, yes, yes</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">JUNE 2012</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1064. June 28: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/06/slowing-or-not-at-whole-foods-on.html">Slowing to now is enough, at Whole Foods and in life/ Life</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1063. June 19: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/06/hi-sonoma-hello-life-each-day-offers.html">Hello Sonoma, Life offers....</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">MAY 2012</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1062, May 3, Thursday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/05/overcoming-stuck-makes-us-happy-smart.html"> Stuck to unstuck, big fun with the right idea of life</a> </span><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #05aaf0;">1061. April 25, Wednesday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/04/loving-what-is-of-bad-communication.html">Communication, staying "now" and it might get wow</a><br />
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1060. April 7, Saturday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/04/yesterday-is-gone-one-more-healing-game.html">The Past is over, Rover, come back to peace</a>a healing game for you and a partner, or an imaginary partner<br />
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MARCH 2012<br />
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1059. Friday, March 23: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/03/divorce-and-enlightenment.html">Divorce and Enlightenment</a><br />
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1058. March 16, back hello on Fridays: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/03/old-days-and-way-to-not-get-so-old-or.html">a Feldy treat on anti-aging etc</a><br />
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FEBRUARY 2012<br />
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1057. Feb 29: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-real-hearts-vs-wounded-heart.html">Our real heart vs our wounded heart</a><br />
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1056. Feb 26: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/02/vows-for-relationship-enlightenment.html">Vows for Enlightened Relationship</a><br />
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1055. February 24: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/02/other-people-love-us-and-sometimes-they.html">Other people love us, and sometimes they forget, oh well</a><br />
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1054. February 10, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/02/if-god-is-love-is-valentines-day-holy.html">Friday: if god is love, is Valentine's day holy?</a><br />
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1053. Feb 3, Friday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/02/importance-of-love-22.html">the importance of love, 22</a><br />
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1052. January 17: God is love, so might as well love back<br />
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1051. January 6: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2012/01/love-is-this-moment-caressing-itself.html">Love is this moment caressing itself</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #134f5c;">NOVEMBER 2001<br />
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1051: November 21: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/11/if-other-way-doesnt-work-try-something.html">Beyond the arguing thing</a><br />
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1050. Nov 11, 2011: T<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/11/za-wake-up-thing-talking-about-now-and.html">alking and ... asleep or awake, what a grand choice</a><br />
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1049. Novem 4: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-would-your-mother-say-if-she-were.html">What would your Mom say if she were dead and you were grieving?</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">OCTOBER 2011<br />
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1048. Octo 28: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/10/importance-of-love.html">Now, Nature and Love: we are perfect, so are the roses, redwoods and the "others"</a><br />
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1047. October 21: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/10/friday-and-sun-is-shining.html">Friday and the Sun is shining, weather or not we command it so</a><br />
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1046. October 14: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/10/if-love-is-za-ansa-vat-is-ze-question.html">If Love is the answer, what is the question?</a></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">1045. October 1: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/10/goethe-quote-good.html">Geothe on Commitment and moving forward in life</a><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><span style="color: purple;">SEPTEMBER 2011</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><span style="color: purple;">1044. Sept 30: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/09/divorce-blues-and-wake-up-call.html">Divorce Blues, relax Jack it's just life, </a>("just!!!!!!!! </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><span style="color: purple;">1043. Sept 23: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/09/options-freedom-crunch-times-in.html">Waking up in relationship, or having to be our moms and pops</a> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><span style="color: purple;">1042. Sept 11; <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/09/joy-of-911.html">The joy of 9/11</a> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><span style="color: purple;">1041. Sept 10: <a href="http://wakeup-feldenkrais.blogspot.com/2011/09/joy-of-911.html">The Joy of Divorce, via slowing down</a></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><span style="color: purple;">1040. Sept 4 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/09/carlos-casteneda-after-30-years-whoopie.html">Carlos Casteneda after 30 years, the first Harry Potter</a> <br />
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1039. <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-are-brains-for.html">What are Brains for?</a><br />
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</span></span></b><b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">AUGUST 2011:</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1038. August 28: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-to-do-about-heat-death-and-taxes.html">What to Do about Heat, death, taxes, people who are mean to you?</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1037. August 19:<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/08/love-poems-to-and-from-god.html"> Love, God, Mira, Hafiz, sec and sacred</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1036. August 14: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/08/lovers-all.html">Lovers and Gods and the I AM in us, now</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1035. August 13: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/08/beyond-suffering-life-is-freedom-and-we.html">The Way out of Suffering: no Shit</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1034. August 5: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/08/who-is-we.html">Who is We, underneath za garbage and ze conditioning</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">JULY 2011</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1033. July 22: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/07/ze-joy-of-eet-all-yes-yez.html">Wake the F.... up!</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1032. July 15: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/07/joy-of-divorce.html">The Joy of Divorce</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1031. July 9: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/07/one-of-lifes-great-joys-overcoming-of.html">The Joy of overcoming difficulties</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1030. July 1: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/07/purpose-of-bad-days.html">The purpose of bad days</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">JUNE 2011</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1029. June 23: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-is-life-for.html">What iz Life Fur?</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1028. June 17: Consolidation at WakeUpFelddie Blog </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1027. <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/06/finding-feeling-fing-feeding-forgiving.html">June 10: Finding, Feeling, F...ing, Fighting: Waking up to Cure Cancer</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1026. June 3: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/06/feeling-good-even-though-part-of-you.html">Feeling good even though part of us feels bad</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%">MAY 2011</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%">1025. May 20: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/05/tired-thing-and-obvious-solution.html">the tired thing, the nap possibility</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%">1024. May 13: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/05/importance-of-living.html">The Importance of Living</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/05/untragedy-of-things-ending.html">The untragedy of "things ending"; relationship shifting with Penina</a></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">APRIL 2011</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1022. April 29: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-would-intelligent-brain-and-heart.html">Friday, Eating and Moving toward a new level of awareness/ fitness</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1021. April 22, Friday, Good Friday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-moment-of-our-lives.html">So Slow in this moment of our lives</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1020. April 15: friday, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/04/taxes-are-taxing-death-is-relaxing-love.html">taxes are taxing, death is relaxing, love is everlasting</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">1019. April 8, friday: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1905536023">How to sit more easily happily and kind of your backly</a></span></b><br />
<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/04/spine-head-and-eyes-in-now-at-our.html">at your computer</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%">1018. fri, March 18, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/03/giving-to-get-and-giving-to-give.html">giving to give, vs giving to get</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%">1017. Fri, March 11: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/03/movement-game-how-are-you-sitting-now.html">An improvement and healing and awaring lesson: how are you sitting right now?</a> </span></b></div>
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<b><span font="110%">1016, FRIDAY, March 4: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/03/landmark-forums-or-can-you-wake-up-in.html">Landmark Forum, can you wake up in a herd</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"><span style="color: #38761d;">1015. March 3:</span> <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/03/some-preliminary-thoughts-on-attending.html">Preliminary Landmark Forum thoughts, with cute Moshe Feldenkrais story way at the end</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">1014. Feb 27, Sunday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/02/feeding-fing-fighting-and-feldenkrais.html">Movement lesson for feeding, f...ing, fighting and spine breath happiness</a></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">1013. Feb 25 Saturday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/02/log-off-get-out-kiss-sky.html">Outside, Inside, life is good</a></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">1012. Feb 19: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/02/try-3-something-must-be-being-learned.html">try three, at least 3 journeys, all at once, maybe 4</a></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">1010: Feb 18: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/02/reflections-on-movement-in-life-of.html">beginnings of a journey talk</a> </span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><b>1009/ feb 11, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/02/1009-valentines-day-offering-second.html">Valentine's Day offering: real communication, out of habit, into the present</a></b></span><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">1008. Feb 11: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/02/friday-13th-not-friday-before.html">Nor Friday the 13 but the one before V day, true, good, beautiful to you and you and you</a></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">1007/ Feb 3: </span><a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/02/smiling-laughing-fing.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Make God happy, be present and make your loved ones smile; make God laugh, have a plan</span></a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">JANUARY 2011</span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">1006. Jan. 29: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/01/one-day-late-doing-turn-around-3-times.html">Turn around 3 ways: to self, to the other, the whole shebang is wrong, Good</a></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">1005: January 21: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/01/1005-importance-of-love.html">The Way of Loving, ourselves and others</a></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">1004. January 14, Friday posting is the new game: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/01/importance-of-living.html">The Importance of Living via the Importance of awakened moving</a></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">1003. Jan 7: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/01/tenth-exercise-from-revised-and-for.html">Book for Sale: may led to happiness, awareness and waking at 4 levels</a></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">1002. Jan 6: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_53808042">First four of the amazing games/ activities/ meditations from 108 Ways,</a></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">1001. Jan 6: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/01/love-and-death.html">Love and Death, one secret to happiness, plus nice picture of Madrone tree bark</a></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">1000. Jan 3:<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/01/soul-work.html"> the balm of all suffering: emptiness</a></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">999. Jan 2:</span></span><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;"> <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2011/01/happiness-is-inside-job-from.html">happiness is an inside job</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #6622ff;">DECEMBER 2010</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #6622ff;">998. Dec 30: r<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/12/resolutions-1.html">esolutions, 1</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #6622ff;">997/ Dec 24 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/12/today-is-not-christmas.html">today is not Christmas</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #6622ff;">996. Dec 23: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/12/whats-important.html">What's important?</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #6622ff;">995. Dec 22: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/12/love-in-winter.html">Love in the winter</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #6622ff;">994. Dec 21: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/12/love-22-minutes-to-mull-this-jewel-of.html">Love is loving the imperfect</a>, 22 minutes of mullng</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #6622ff;">993 Dec 20: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-is-good-about-life.html">What is good about life, one person's opinion, and opinions aren't truth</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #6622ff;">992. Dec 14: f<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/12/joys-of-fear.html">ear can be real, or just another grand wake up call</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #6622ff;">991. Dec 3: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/12/mary-oliver-do-not-have-to-be-good-be.html">You do not have to be good: a Mary Oliver poem</a></span></b><br />
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990. Dec 1; <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/12/can-we-love-nonsense.html">waking up good guys bad guys nonsense or no nonsense</a><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">NOVEMBER 2010</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">989. Nov 30: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/11/today-is-bit-like-winter.html">Austin cold like winter, warm like life</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">988. nov 25: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/11/thanks-and-so-on.html">thanks for the sweet empty void, source of....</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">987. nov 24: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/11/stuck-and-unstuck-good.html">stuck and unstuck, the magic of "I don't know"</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">986. nov 23: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/11/another-happy-poem-is-this-permissible.html">another happy poem, is that permissible</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">985. Nov 23, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/11/happy-day-in-austin-happiness-poem-27.html">happiness in the morning against the chattering brain odds in Austin</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">984. Nov 10: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/11/impatience-and-utube-sermon-other.html">Impatience steals us from the now: plus a utube sermon, good</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">983. Nov. 1: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/11/blaming-others-aint-it-temptation.html">The blame temptation</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">982. Oct 29 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/10/life-is-good.html">Life is good in a cool morning</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">981. October 26: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/10/amazing-austin.html">Amazing Austin, plus</a> letter to folks who might want to try the work in Austin</span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #aa00ff;">980. October 18: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/10/austin-looking-for-cragslist-bit-and-if.html">Looking for clients, and cool people and housing in Austin, Texas</a> </span></b><br />
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<b>979. Oct 16: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/10/wonders-of-now.html">the wonders of now, yep, this one right now</a><br />
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<b><span font="110%">978. October 6: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/10/okay-now-importance-of-love-part-2.html">the importance of love, 2 </a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">977. sept 30, t<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/09/importance-of-love.html">he importance of love</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">976. Sept 22: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/09/complaining-in-complaining-out.html">Criticism In, Criticism Out: getting free of the programming</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">975, Sept 14: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/09/nearness.html">The Nearness of ???? (God, Life, Love, Your Real Self)</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #15a5f0;">974. Sept 13: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/09/chapter-one-beginning-to-become-real-us.html">The Meaning of Life, Learning and Happiness: Chapter One</a></span></b><br />
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<b>973. Sept One: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-difference-do-it-make.html">What Difference Do it Make, or Homeless Wisdom, or: Sweet Book</a> </b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">AUGUST 2010 </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">972. August 19, or so: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/argue-but-not-with-reality-or-with-your.html">Argue with your feet, your truth, but not with the one you love</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">971. Aug 14: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-early-and-im-late.html">life is now, even when you are "late'</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">970. Aug 12: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/this-story-that-story-whats-left.html">story, story, on the brain: what's left minus </a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">969. Aug 10: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-late-im-all-alone-what-does-that.html">the wonder of it all, sort of</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">968. aug 9: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/ready-to-pounce.html">waiting to be caught, or to catch</a><br />
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967. august 7: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/something-may-be-waiting-and-can-i-wait.html">Waiting for the Friend, and pretending its out there</a><br />
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966. August 6: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/now-or-nothing-yes.html">waiting, part A</a><br />
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965. August 5: now or nothing, and now and nothing win/win<br />
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964. August 4: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/waiting.html">Waiting to Be where we Already ARe</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">963. August 3: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/poem-day-first-day-easiest-well-assume.html">Poem a Day, ha ha </a></span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #5000f0;">962. August 3, Tuesday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/08/for-glory-of-god-and-our-own-awakening.html">Reality as a sweet feast</a><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #ca1694;">961. July 29: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/07/sweet-way-to-present-feldenkrais-method.html">the Sweetness of Baby Learning: a 3 minute vidoe</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #ca1694;">960. July 21:<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/07/120-soul-framework-for-meditation.html"> A frame for mediation</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #ca1694;">959. July 20: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/07/119-practicing-thinking-practicing.html">Practicing thinking</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #ca1694;">958. July 18: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/07/118-happiness-sexy-possibility.html">Happiness is not a sin</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #ca1694;">957. July 17: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/07/117-movement-matters-up-and-down-with.html">Up and Down, Lengthening and Awaring and Easing into our Day</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span font="110%" style="color: #ca1694;">956. July 13: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/07/self-is-not-name-nor-labels-they-put-on.html">The name they give us not = us, nor the labels, what's left?</a><br />
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955. July 10: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/07/116-soul-as-on-earth-as-is-in-heaven.html">Heaven and Earth and our human awareness in between</a><br />
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954. July 9: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/07/thinking-and-walking-words-gibberish.html">Thinking and Walking: Giving ourselves options to the ongoing "worry"</a><br />
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953. July 6: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/07/114-emotional-learning-choices-at.html">emotional upping: choices at the unhappiness node</a><br />
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952. June 30: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human-being.html">Present to feet and eyes: the up and down of being human</a><br />
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951. June 29, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/06/110-thinking-without-words.html">"thinking" without words</a><br />
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950. June 28: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/06/110-way-we-go-emotionally-what-gets-it.html">emotional learning: what thoughts do what</a><br />
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949. JUNE 24: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/06/day-109-we-have-spine.html">day 109, we have a spine</a><br />
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948. June 14: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/06/today-is-not-yesterday.html">Five lines and loving life</a><br />
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947/ June 7: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/06/loving-god.html">Loving God, do ya have to believe to do that?</a><br />
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946. May 30, Sunday, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/05/jesus-in-new-yorker-letter-to-editor.html"></a><a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/05/jesus-in-new-yorker-letter-to-editor.html">Jesus in the New Yorker</a>: was Jesus sometimes not "Christian?" Gads, what to do with that?<br />
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945. May 26, wednesday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/05/rain-in-may.html">Weather we like it or not, today is today, and now is now</a><br />
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944. May 19: wednesday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/05/waiting-for-nothing-and-were-there.html">Waiting as a Fruitful and ever available food</a><br />
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943. May 12: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/05/happiness-may-be-who-we-really-are-or.html">Unhappy, happy, who is the real me?</a><br />
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942. May 7: Day Forty Two: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-42-what-to-do-or-how-to-do-it.html">Going Slow</a><br />
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941. May 1: Day Forty One: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-41-having-fun.html">Having Fun</a><br />
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940. April 30: Day Forty: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-40-fullness.html">The Fullness</a><br />
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939. April 27: Day Thirty Nine: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-39-pause-that-can-change-everything.html">The Pause that seems to slow can ///// instead. What is /////?? Try it and find out.</a><br />
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938. April 24 . <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/lots.html">Lots of writing of the one page per action/ motion/ learning sort. 16 days worth.</a><br />
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937. April 21, Wednesday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day_21.html">twisting and learning in sitting</a><br />
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936. April 17, Saturday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-thirty-seven-learning-can-take-us.html">Toes are for walking and learning. brains are for waking up and learning. life is for living</a><br />
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935. April 15, Thursday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-thirty-six-importance-of-love.html">The Importance of Love</a><br />
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934. April 13, Happy Birthday Chris, Day Thirty five: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-thirty-five-alive-waking-while.html">Waking to Life and Now, even while chatting, talking, blah, blahing</a><br />
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933. April 12: Day Thirty-three: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-thirty-three-looking-at-tree.html">look at a tree</a><br />
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932. April 9, Day thirty-four: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-thrity-three-happy-feet-happy-toes.html">Happy Toes, Happy Feet, movement lesson</a><br />
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931. April 8: Day thirty two, what to do: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-thrity-two-what-do-do-finding-peace.html">Change around our "take" on various emotional reactions</a><br />
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930. April 5, Day 31: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/for-glory-of-god-and-our-own-delight.html">For the glory of God and our own Amusement</a><br />
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929. April 3, day 30: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-thirty-waking-to-life-we-are-living.html">waking to our real selves</a><br />
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928. April 2: Day 29, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-twenty-nine-what-to-leave-behind.html">what to leave behind, death of part of "me" = change, = rebirth</a><br />
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927. April 1, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/04/second-time-around-108-days-last-to.html">index of the second time around on 108 days, starting November 1 last year, ending Feb 24, 2010</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #6c166c;">MARCH 2010<br />
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926. March 30: Day 27: <a href="http://wakeup-feldenkrais.blogspot.com/2010/03/game-of-learning-rotation-to-left-in.html">One way to Heaven : move with awakening</a><br />
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925. March 25: Day Twenty Five, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-twenty-five-life-with-less-have-to.html">More alive, less "have to"</a><br />
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924. March 24: Day Twenty-Four: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-twenty-four-sensing-floor-our.html">Sensing the Floor, the gravity game, enjoy</a><br />
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943. March 22: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-twenty-two-what-to-do.html">What to do? Be, be, be of good cheer</a><br />
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942. March 21, Day Twenty One: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-twenty-one-turn-around.html">The turn around</a><br />
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941. March 20: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-20-peek-into-other-universe.html">Who are we WITHOUT the story?</a><br />
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940. March 19, Day 19: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-19-who-are-we-how-we-suffer-when-we.html">Who am I WITH the story?</a><br />
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939. March 18, Day Eighteen: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-eighteen-is-this-thought-absolutely.html">The Work of Byron Katie, #2: Is it absolutley true?</a><br />
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938. March 17, Day Seventeen: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-seventeen-work-of-byron-katie.html">The Work of Byron Katie, #1: Is it true?</a><br />
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937. March 16: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-16-why-wake-up-part-one.html">Why Wake Up, or Fun in Nowing and Moving and Inventing</a><br />
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936. Day 15: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-fifteen-it-is-easier-for-camel-to.html">Rich in Possessions = Poor chance of getting into Kingdom of Heaven</a><br />
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935. March 14, day 14, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-fourteen-rest-and-glory-on-7th-day.html">seventh day, of rest, prayer a lot, little bits</a><br />
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934. March 13, day 13: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-thirteen-lucky-thirteen.html">lucky thirteen, season time, seasons of the day time, take a walk</a><br />
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933. March 12, day 12: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-eleven-heaven-of-awareness-spine.html">more five lines in actions, folding from on back</a><br />
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932> march 11, day 11: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-eleven-toward-heaven-2-emotions.html">towards heaven, 2: emotions minus words in the head</a><br />
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931. march 11, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/troubled-love-poem-to-god-by-hafiz.html">Troubled? Love Poem to God, by Hafiz</a><br />
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930. March 10, day 10: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/ten-emotions-as-actions.html">emotional freedom by varying what we usually get "stuck" in</a><br />
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929. Day Nine, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-nine-acture-and-reality-of-life.html">actually, acture not posture is where to hunt</a><br />
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928. Day Eight, March 8: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-eight.html">Round and arch in standing</a><br />
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927. Day Seven, March 7, March on, ho hi ha ho, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-seven-take-rest-come-back-to-heaven.html">The Day of Rest, the Kingdom of Heaven</a><br />
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926. March 4, day six: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/this-is-my-life-hmmm-interesting.html">This is My Life</a><br />
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925. March 4, Day Five, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-five-more-alive-2-arms-2-legs-1.html">Feeling more alive, waking to our 5 lines in forward bending</a><br />
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924. March 1, Day Four: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-four-open-door-to-what-whom-how-wow.html">Open the Door, what door? Well, discovering which door is opening the door, in a way</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #3ee165;">FEBRUARY 2010<br />
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923. feb 28: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-three-why-live.html">Why live?</a><br />
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922. feb 27: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-two-arms-and-legs-sure-why-not.html">arms and legs, sensing expands, day two</a><br />
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921. feb 26: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/again-sure-why-not-day-one-breathing.html">day one: sensing, difference, breathing</a><br />
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920. feb 24: day 108: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-108-this-is-beginning.html">this is a beginning</a><br />
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919. feb 23, day 107, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-is-my-life-yes-weve-been-here.html">this is my life, 2</a><br />
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918. feb 22 day 106 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/up-and-down-and-twisting-and-awaring-5.html">up and down and five lines, the easy and not so easy</a><br />
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917. feb 20. day 105: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-105-sitting-and-side-bending-spine.html">sitting and side bending</a><br />
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916. feb 17, day 104: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-104-slowing-down.html">slowing down</a><br />
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915. feb 15: day 103, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/emotions%20as%20actions,%20so%20let%27s%20move%20toward%20free">emotions as actions, so let's move toward free</a><br />
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914, feb 14: happy Valentines, day 102: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/valentines-to-you-day-102-write.html">Write Yourself a Love Letter, both hands write, go slow, love and learn</a><br />
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913. feb 12, day 101: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-101-having-fun-in-five-line-nowness.html">ten fingers, ten toes, belly, eyes, ears, nose</a><br />
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912. feb 10, day 100: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-100-review-for-your-recalling-and.html">a review of sorts</a><br />
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911. feb 9, day 99: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/99-having-g.html">having a good time discovering the new in the now</a><br />
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910. feb 8, 98: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/98-getting-it-straight.html">la, la, la: past over rover, oh well, oh great</a><br />
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909. feb 7: 97, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-97-rotation-easy-way-on-our-backs.html">heaven: lying on our backs, learning</a><br />
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908. feb 6 , day 96 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-96-meditation-beginning-or.html">rotation for fun, joy, meditation, learning, "relaxation," and upgrading of awareness, ease and "energy</a><br />
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907. feb 5: day 95: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/95-what-others-do-and-our-reaction-to.html">3 kinds of business, Byron Katie shortcut</a><br />
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906. feb 4: day 94: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/94-question-3-again-how-do-i-make-hell.html">making hell for ourselves by believing the story, q 3 of the work</a><br />
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905. feb 3, day 93,<br />
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904. feb 2, day 92: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/92-but-i-dont-want-to-forgive-ah-to-be.html">But I don't want to forgive. Ah, to be human and stuck, welcome to the Life on Earth show</a><br />
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903. Feb 1, day 91: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-91-go-inside-wake-up-to-loving.html">Go inside, let it go, and find real Peace</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #a21965;">JANUARY 2010<br />
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902. jan 30: day 90: G<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/go-outside-and-be-go-outside-and-be.html">o outside, and see what now tastes like there</a><br />
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901. jan 29: 89< <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/89-arch-and-round-breathing-2-ways.html">doing fine, breathing two ways and the joy of a spine and a sense of humor</a><br />
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900. jan 28: day 88, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/88-heavens-gate-attention-on-attention.html">heaven's gate = ???</a><br />
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899. jan 27, day 87: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/day-87-heaven-of-bit-of-hard-sort-but.html">hard but, what the heck, waking up is amazing</a><br />
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898. jan 26, day 86, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/86-playing-in-rotation.html">movement around the axis, playing in rotation<br />
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897. jan 25, day 85, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/85-permission-suggestion-pause-and-do.html">the pause that wakes us up</a><br />
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896. Jan 24, day 84, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/84-what-is-amazing-in-your-life.html">what's amazing in your life?</a><br />
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895. January 23, day 83: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/83to-taste-again.html">tongues to the nowing</a><br />
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894. jan 22: day 82: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/82-bend-and-arch-in-sitting-head.html">arching and rounding in sitting</a><br />
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893. jan 21, day 81: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/81-liking-and-like-and-what-are-we-like.html">what we like as a clue to what we are like</a><br />
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892. jan 20: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/80-alive-and-now-good-good.html">the glory and necessity of now</a><br />
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891. jan 19, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/79-listening-game-part-1.html">day 79:listening in new ways, part 1</a><br />
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890. jan 18:day 78: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/78-hopping-in-new-and-non-habitual-way.html">hopping in two ways, thinking and moving, yes</a><br />
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889. jan 17, day 77: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/77-other-people-are-what-they-are-big.html">other people are (surprise!) what they are</a><br />
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888. jan 16, day 76: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/76-real-choices-all-time.html">reality through two lens</a><br />
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887. jan 15: day 75: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/75-what-is-reality-who-am-i-hard-ones.html">what is reality and other "little" q's</a><br />
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886. jan 14: day 74: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/74-whats-more-rounding-and-arch.html">what's more, round and arch</a><br />
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885. jan 13, day 73: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/73-breathing-and-life-and-now.html">breathing our way to now</a><br />
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884. jan 12: day 72, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/72-what-to-do.html">what to do: waking to others while talking</a><br />
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883. jan 11: day 71<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/71-sun-of-gun.html">son of a gun, or: awake while yakking</a><br />
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882, jan 10, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/70-plenty-simple-version.html">of what, plenty?</a><br />
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881, jan 9, day 69: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/69-what-to-leave-behind.html">what to leave behind</a><br />
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880. jan 8, day 68: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/68-breathing-out-two-ways.html">breathing out, two ways</a><br />
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879. jan 7, day 67: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/67-to-heaven-one-breath-remembered.html">to heaven, one (remembered) breath at a time</a><br />
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878. jan 6, day 66: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/66-pick-up-sticks.html">pick up sticks, flexing our spines, touching the ground, the wall</a><br />
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877. jan 5, day 65: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/65-feeling-alive.html">alive</a><br />
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876. Jan 4, day 64: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/64-theres-always-more-but-what.html">There's always more, but what...?</a><br />
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875. Jan 3, day 63: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/63-seeing-tree-part-2.html">Looking at a tree, part 2</a><br />
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874. January 2, 2010: day 62: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2010/01/62-down-and-up-rotation-enjoyment.html">leaning, rising, being in now not thought</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #de3736;">DECEMBER 2009</span></b></b><br />
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<span font="110%" style="color: #de3736;">DECEMBER 2009<br />
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873. dec 31: day 61:<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-61-real-us-in-there-somewhere.html"> what we want vs. who we really are</a><br />
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872. dec 30: day 60: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-60-life-on-its-own-terms-or-shut-up.html">silence is a/ the path</a><br />
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871. dec 29: day 59 : <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-59-other-people-and-staying-awake.html">other people and staying awake</a><br />
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870. dec 28: day 58: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-58-getting-straight-by-moving-with.html">down on the ground and learning</a><br />
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869. dec 27: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/liking-what-it-doesnt-like.html">liking what 'it' doesn't like</a><br />
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868. dec 27: day 57: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-57-up-from-down-playing-in-fields.html">Up from down, gravity movement learning and fun</a><br />
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867. dec 26: Day 56: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-56-up-and-down-for-brain-and-body.html">Up and down, for learning and fun</a><br />
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866. dec 25: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-day-christmas-songs.html">Christmas songs and two grand hints: silence, nature</a><br />
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865. dec 25, Christmas, day 55 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-fifty-five-being-alive.html">being alive, fully alive</a><br />
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864. dec 24, day 54: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-54-nice-vs-real.html">nice vs kind, kin and being present</a><br />
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863. Dec 23: day 53: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-53-arching-rounding-sitting.html">arch and round and breathe in sitting</a><br />
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862. Dec 22: day 52: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-52-what-to-do-wake-up-to-who-we.html">Wake up to Who we Really Are<br />
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861. Dec 21: day 51: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-51-whats-new-under-sun.html">What's new under the sun?</a><br />
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860. Dec 20: Day 50: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-50-other-people-as-path-to-waking.html">Other people, can we listen deeper?</a><br />
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859. Dec 19: Day 49: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-forty-nine-more-spine-more-acture.html">More spine, sitting and standing, plop, plopping</a><br />
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858. dec 18, day 48: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-48-five-lines-to-waking-up-in-day.html">five lines all day, hmmm, hard and amazing</a><br />
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857. dec 17, day 47< <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-47-more-freedom-no-sunset-on-anger.html">do not let the sun set on....huh??? #2</a><br />
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856. dec 16: day 46: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-46-be-angry-but-do-not-sin-huh.html">be angry but do not sin, huh??</a><br />
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855. dec 15, day 45: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-45-moving-head-and-knees-in-side.html">alive and moving on side, spine and pelvis again</a><br />
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854. dec 14: day 44: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-44-pelvis-and-spine-on-our-sides.html">moving spine and pelvis, lying on the side</a><br />
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853. dec 13, day 43, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/43-asskicker-20-good-things-for-enemy.html">20 nice things about an "enemy"</a><br />
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852. dec 12L day 42: What to do: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-42-what-to-do-less-and-wait-and.html">Pause, wait, see, yes</a><br />
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851. Dec 11: Day 41: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-41-its-done-turn-around.html">It's done, it's us, good news: the turn around</a><br />
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850. Dec 10: Day 40: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-40-question-4.html">the end of suffering, who are we without the story?</a><br />
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849. Dec. 9: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/39-question-3-in-byron-katie-work.html">q #3, consequences of attaching to the thought</a><br />
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848. Dec. 8: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-thirty-eight-getting-something.html">38: question 2: Can you Absolutely know this thought is true?</a><br />
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847. Dec 7: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/37-on-way-to-heaven.html">37: on way to Heaven, the Byron Katie boat, part 1</a><br />
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846. Dec. 6: R<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-thirty-six.html">ight now and rotation around ourselves: fun and exploring and NOW</a><br />
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845. Dec. 5: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-thirty-five-now-is-gold.html">day thirty-five: Now is around and waiting, where are we?</a><br />
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844, Dec 4: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-thirty-four-studying-happy-and.html">Day Thirty-four: Happy, unhappy: watching</a><br />
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843. Dec. 3: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-thirty-three-seeing-really-seeing.html">Day Thirty Three, really seeing a tree, = love</a><br />
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842. Dec 2: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-thrity-two-moving-with-back-and.html">Twisting in Sitting, fun</a><br />
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841. Dec. 1: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-thirty-one-sweetness-of-learning.html">Day Thirty-One: Talking and Staying Present, 2</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #169b36;">NOVEMBER 2009<br />
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840. Nov. 30: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-thirty-down-and-dirty-or-not-being.html">Day Thirty:Down and Dirty, or not, the being present present present thing</a><br />
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839. Nov. 29: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-twenty-nine-what-to-leave-behind.html">Day Twenty-Nine: Don't take it Personally</a><br />
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838. Nov. 28:<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-twenty-eight-standing-up-straight.html">Day Twenty-Eight, Standing up straight via spine furling and unfurling</a><br />
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837. Nov 27: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-twenty-seven-on-way-to-heaven-slow.html">Day Twenty-Seven: One Way to Heaven, Slow Down</a><br />
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836. Nov. 26 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-twenty-six-gratitude-without-have.html">Day Twenty-six: Gratitude as a fun game, rather than a being good duty</a><br />
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835. Nov. 25 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-twenty-five-what-if-we-didnt-have.html">Day Twenty-five: <br />
What if we didn't "Have to...."</a><br />
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834: Nov. 24: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Day%20Twenty-four:Moving%20with%20Attention">Day Twenty-four:Moving with Attention</a><br />
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833. Nov. 23: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-twenty-three-sensing-our-five-lines.html">Day Twenty-three: Sensing our Five Lines</a><br />
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832. Nov 22: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-twenty-two-be-of-good-cheer.html">Day Twenty-two: Be of Good Cheer</a><br />
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831. Nov 21: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/twenty-one-first-time-through-awake.html">Day Twenty-One: First time through, Awake while Talking</a><br />
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830. Nov. 20: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-twenty-this-is-my-life-2.html">Day Twenty: This is my Life, 2</a><br />
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829. Nov. 19:Day Nineteen: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-nineteen-arms-and-legs-and-spine.html">Sensing arms and legs AND spine</a><br />
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828. Now 18: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-eighteen-waking-in-moving.html">Day Eighteen: Waking in Moving</a><br />
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827. Nov.17, Day Seventeen: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-seventeen-emotions-minus-inner.html">Emotional freedom, sensing without the words</a><br />
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826. Nov. 16: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-sixteen-sweet-sixteen-sweet-and.html">Day Sixteen: Sweet Sixteen, sweet and bitter straws of life</a><br />
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825. Day 15: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-fifteen-take-nap.html">Day Fifteen: Take a Nap</a><br />
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824. Nov 14: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-fourteen-neck-starts-in-ass.html">Day Fourteen: Neck and spine and Pelvis: Or, the Neck starts in the Ass</a><br />
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823. Nov. 13: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-thirteen-keep-rotation-with.html">Day Thirteen: Rotation around our axis, more</a><br />
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822. Nov. 12 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-twelve-coming-to-ease-lots-of-life.html">Day Twelve: Coming to Ease via Aware Moving/ Learning / Waking UP</a><br />
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821.Nov. 11, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-eleven-kingdom-of-heaven-2.html">Kingdom of Heaven, 2</a><br />
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820.Nov. 10: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-ten-acture-and-living-real-life.html">ACTURE and the real world</a><br />
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819. Nov. 9: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-nine-loving-our-spine.html">Loving our Spine</a><br />
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818. Nov. 8: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-eight-getting-straight.html">Standing up Straight</a><br />
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817. Nov 7, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-seven-kingdom-of-heaven.html">Kingdom of Heaven</a><br />
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816. Nov. 6 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-six-this-is-my-life.html">This is my Life</a><br />
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815. Nov. 5, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-five-arms-and-legs-and-making-sense.html">Being Alive, Sensing Arms and Legs</a><br />
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814. Nov. 4, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-4-what-if-god-were-around.html">What if God were around?</a><br />
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813. Nov. 3: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-three-possibility-emotional.html">Day Three: Emotional Choosing, ? Maybe</a><br />
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812. Nov 2: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-two-sensing-breathing-too.html">Day Two: Breathing plus legs, to wake up</a><br />
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811. Nov. 1 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-one-sensing-legs.html">Sensing our Legs to Wake to Now</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #de9b9a;">OCTOBER 2009<br />
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810. October 23: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/10/benefits-of-anat-baniel-method-and.html">Benefits of Anat Baniel Method</a><br />
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809. October 16: <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8072701&postID=6545864601125565372">working to create a sweet space</a><br />
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808. October 7: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/10/life-is-good.html">life is good</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #16ff36;">SEPTEMBER 2009<br />
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807. Sept 24: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/09/working-too-hard.html">working too hard</a><br />
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806. Sept 13: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/09/soul-now.html">soul now</a><br />
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805. Sept 12: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-will-it-profit-person.html">What will it profit a dude or dudess ?</a><br />
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804. Sept 10 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/09/go-slow-joe.html">Go Slow, Joe</a><br />
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803. Sept. 7: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-phone-360-317-4773.html">new phone #</a><br />
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802. Sept 5: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-life.html">Waking necessary to change</a><br />
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801. September 1, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/09/wheres-problem.html">What's the Problem, inner vs outer worlds</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #38949a;">AUGUST 2009<br />
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800. August 20: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/happy-or-what.html">Be happy, or what?</a><br />
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799. August 15: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/nice-vs-real-or.html">Nice vs real, or "????"</a><br />
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798. August 13, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-is-my-life-1.html">This is my life</a><br />
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797. Aug 11, Tues: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/who-am-i.html">Who am I?</a><br />
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796. Aug 10: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/be-of-good-cheer.html">Be of Good Cheer</a><br />
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795. August 9, Sunday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/be-angry-but-do-not-sin.html">Be angry, but do not sin</a><br />
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794. August 8, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/turning-with-awareness-and-sensing.html">Turning to the left with awareness</a><br />
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793. August 7, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/for-love-of-love.html">for love of love</a><br />
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792. August 7, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/108-days-of-nowing-day-one.html">108 days of now-ing, day one</a><br />
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791. Aug 4, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/08/hi-sweetie.html">Hi Sweetie</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #70309a;">JULY 2009<br />
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790. July 20, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/07/love-is-good.html">Love is good, Morgan some more</a><br />
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789. July 15, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/07/moshe-quote.html">hiding behind the mask, or not</a><br />
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788. July 14: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/07/life-is-good.html">yes to it all</a><br />
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787. July 9: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/07/im-in-love-and-so-what.html">I'm in love and so what?</a><br />
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786. July 7 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/07/good-day.html">yes life good day ha ha hee hee ho</a><br />
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785. july 2 t<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/07/returning-to-reality-maybe.html">en fingers ten toes wake up call, sort of</a><br />
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784. July 1, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-get-smarter.html">How to get smarter</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #70f836;">JUNE 2009<br />
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783. June 30, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/06/balance-and-good-luck-to-be-heading.html">balance and Moshe and more</a><br />
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782.June 24 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/06/beyond-solstice.html"> loving life a few days after solstice</a><br />
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781. June 19 <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/06/porpoise-of-life.html">the porpoise of life</a><br />
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780. June 11, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/06/ever-morning-more-chances-to-love.html">every morning, more chances to love</a><br />
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779. June 4, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/06/love-change-awakening.html">love, change, awakening</a><br />
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778. June 1, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-moment.html">this moment<br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #0c94fe;">MAY 2009<br />
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777. gone<br />
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776. May 19, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/05/orcas-finally-and-beautiful-it-is.html">Orcas finally, and beautiful it is</a><br />
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775. May 18, Monday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/05/stuff-happens.html">Stuff happens</a><br />
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774. May 16, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/05/arcata-beautiful-wet-not-place-for-me.html">Arcata fine place, not a place I wish to move to</a><br />
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773. May 15, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/05/doing-less-sometimes.html">Doing Less, sometimes</a><br />
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772. May 2, 2009: Saturday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-month-new-place-hello-arcata-and.html">Arcata, Hello; always a choice: now or not now</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #de3036;">APRIL 2009<br />
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771. April 15, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/04/now-is-easy-why.html">Now is Easy, Why don't we always go there?</a><br />
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770. April 15, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/04/taxes-and-death.html">taxes and death, good????</a><br />
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769. April 10, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/04/life-is-good.html">Life is good</a><br />
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768. April 5, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/04/anat-baniel-practitioner.html">Anat Baniel Practitioner, Brendan and his dad, both</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #7a309a;">MARCH 2009<br />
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767. March 31: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/hello-sonoma-hilarious-findings.html">love is all around</a><br />
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766. March 26, Thursday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/one-thing-leads-to-another.html">Light upon Light, the light verse of the Qu'ran</a><br />
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765. March 20, Friday, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-2.html">what's love got to do with it, 2</a><br />
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764. March 18, Wed, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/whats-good-about-being-alive.html">What's good about being alive?</a><br />
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763. March 13, Friday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/worth-watching.html">watch this, you'll be glad</a><br />
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762. March 11: Tuesday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/life-on-earth-today-was-one-of-those.html">the beauty of today</a><br />
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761. March 9. Monday, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-is-meaning-of-resurrection.html">one meaning of the Resurrection</a><br />
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760. March 7, Saturday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/love-forgiveness-busy-ness.html">Love, Busy-ness, Forgiveness</a><br />
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759. March 2, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it.html">What's love got to do with it?</a><br />
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758. March 1, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/03/atl.html">Sunday in Atlanta: Snow and Love</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #7a3036;">FEBRUARY 2009<br />
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757. feb 27: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/02/other-people.html">other people</a><br />
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756. feb 25: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/02/poor-me.html">poor me, not poor me</a><br />
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755 feb 22: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/02/each-day.html">good day Sunday: take advice on alfalfa and car roofs</a><br />
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754. feb 21: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/02/saturday-is-good-day-and-you-are-good.html">good day, Saturday</a><br />
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753. feb 17: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/02/who-would-i-be-without-story.html">who would i be without the story?</a><br />
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752/ Feb 15: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/02/jesus-and-katie.html">Katie and Jesus</a><br />
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751. Feb 10: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-place-tucson-good.html">in Tucson, with and without the story</a><br />
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750. February 5: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/02/exercise-from-orage.html">an exercise from Orage</a><br />
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749. February 4: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/02/in-new-place-it-is-tempting.html">in a new place it is tempting</a><br />
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</span><span font="110%" style="color: #7a309a;">JANUARY 2009<br />
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748. Jan 30, Friday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/63-and-i-finally-learned-how-to-do-this.html">Last day, yoga pose, good for life</a><br />
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747. Jan 29, Thursday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/primacy-of-love.html">the primacy of love</a><br />
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746. jan 24, at 2009:::: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/sun-today.html">sun today</a><br />
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745. jan 23, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/today-is-messhow-wonderful.html">too much, just the right amount</a><br />
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744. jan 22 2009: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ZhSyjtLio">baraka and nobility and the power of possibilities</a><br />
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743. jan21 wed 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-day-end-of-error.html">new day, end of an error</a><br />
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743. jan 21, 2009:<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/baracks-speech-on-lets-get-to-work.html"> Barack's speech, print form, let's get to work</a><br />
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742. jan 20, tuesday, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/finally.html">finally, it's okay to have a brain</a><br />
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741. jan 19, mon, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/sometimes-love-isnt-love.html">love and not love</a><br />
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740. jan 17, 2009: sat, <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/posts.g?blogID=8072701">drink tea be happy</a><br />
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739. jan 16, 2009, friday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/for-love.html">for love</a><br />
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738.jan 15, thurs, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/breathing.html">breathing</a><br />
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737. jan 14, wed, <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-not.html"> why not be happy</a><br />
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736.January 13, 2009: tuesday, :: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/for-love-of-morning.html">for love of morning, life is...</a><br />
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735. January 11, 2009: Sunday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/porpoise-of-life.html"> the porpoise of life</a><br />
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734. January 10, 2009, Saturday:<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/boundaries.html"> boundaries and love and possibilities</a><br />
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733. January 9, 2009, Friday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-breath.html">'tis grand to breathe and be alive</a><br />
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732. January 8, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/so-called-tired.html">So called "tired"</a><br />
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733. January 7, 2009, Wed., <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/effective-living.html">If what you are doing isn't working...</a><br />
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732, January 6, 2009, Tuesday: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-poem.html">this poem has nothing</a><br />
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731. January 5, 2009: T<a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/rigged-game.html">he Peace that Passeth all Understanding</a><br />
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730. January 4, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/to-be-awake-is-to-love.html">to be awake is to love</a><br />
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729. January 3, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/real-person.html">What can a real person do?</a><br />
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728. January 2, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/if-another-person-is-pain-in-ass.html"> If another person is a pain in the ass</a><br />
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727/ January 1, 2009: <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-year-new-chances-to-love.html"> New Year, New Chances to Love, Yes</a><br />
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509-602 , <a href="http://chriselms.blogspot.com/2008/01/index-january-1-june-17-2008.html">INDEX OF POSTINGS JANUARY 1,2008 TO JUNE 17, 2008</a><br />
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</span></span></b></b>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-80215883706959308822012-05-03T12:36:00.002-07:002012-05-03T12:37:24.809-07:00overcoming the stuck makes us happy, smart and strong, or something like that<div style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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<br />
Moshe Feldenkrais ends his book, the Potent Self,
with a statement to the effect that<br />
"One of the great joys in life is overcoming difficulties."<br />
<br />
There you go.<br />
<br />
Life is about challenges,<br />
and even if the challenge is being delighted<br />
in the present,<br />
that challenge is always present.<br />
<br />
We want to change weight.<br />
Get jobs more in tune with our real nature.<br />
Make more money.<br />
Move more easily.<br />
Improve golf, tennis, swimming, yoga, walking, dancing.<br />
<br />
We want to relax more,<br />
Be happier.<br />
<br />
That's a good base line isn't it:<br />
<br />
To be happy.<br />
<br />
Happiness is who we are meant to be.<br />
<br />
Unhappiness is the alarm signal:<br />
not living life as it should be lived.<br />
<br />
Joy is who we are meant to be.<br />
<br />
Frustration means:<br />
we want something more.<br />
<br />
Can we be happy<br />
and present<br />
and excited<br />
to take our frustration<br />
and turn it into learning?<br />
<br />
I think, feel and have experienced<br />
that's a pretty nice way to live.<br />
<br />
What do you think?<br />
<br />
<br />
Ciao<br />
for<br />
NOW,<br />
<br />
Chris
</div>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-81422665813442764972012-04-28T16:23:00.000-07:002012-04-28T16:24:15.246-07:00Now, Nature and Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We look at a river, a creek, an ocean, a meadow, a redwood,
and oak,<br />
even an elm.<br />
<br />
Easy to enjoy.<br />
East to just look, take it in, feel content, happy, at ease.<br />
<br />
Nature reflecting back to us<br />
the wonder of creation.<br />
<br />
Telling us really, how grand we<br />
are<br />
how grand is life.<br />
<br />
These are sweet messages:<br />
the sky is just there<br />
and as it is:<br />
perfect, wonderful,<br />
and we can love it<br />
<br />
almost any time<br />
we slow down<br />
and come into the<br />
now<br />
<br />
the right now<br />
now<br />
<br />
and let the sky be what we<br />
see<br />
without even the word<br />
"sky"<br />
<br />
without even the word "blue"<br />
<br />
but that color<br />
ah, without a name<br />
and with all that bouncing around in<br />
our retina<br />
and in our brain<br />
and in our heart<br />
and in our whole Selves:<br />
<br />
what sweetness<br />
<br />
and the sweetness<br />
which is who we really are<br />
makes us remember<br />
who we really are:<br />
<br />
love<br />
<br />
we are love<br />
and we blame the sky,<br />
which we feel we love<br />
<br />
or the river or the creek or the meadow<br />
or the rose<br />
or the cat or the mouse or the mockingbird dove quail<br />
horse squirrel deer moose pigeon<br />
<br />
nature<br />
and now<br />
and love<br />
<br />
they kind of all swirl together<br />
<br />
and when we are "in love"<br />
it is as if we are seeing the beloved<br />
the way we see a rose<br />
perfect<br />
or the ocean<br />
marvelous<br />
or the robin<br />
delightful<br />
<br />
nature is just fine<br />
we don't want it to gain weight loose weight<br />
appreciate us more<br />
talk more talk less<br />
say just the right thing<br />
<br />
in fact<br />
loud ocean<br />
silent leaf shimmer<br />
nature has a non verbal glory<br />
that is<br />
one of the hallmarks<br />
of the now;<br />
<br />
just what is<br />
<br />
without the blah, blah<br />
explaining it<br />
<br />
even this blah, blah,<br />
which might,<br />
like good blah blah<br />
inspire you to shut down the computer<br />
and go stroll a bit<br />
in the now<br />
in the nature<br />
<br />
in love<br />
with<br />
yourself<br />
life<br />
people around you<br />
<br />
the whole<br />
she<br />
bang<br />
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<br />
Good. chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-29235768092638930312012-04-25T10:21:00.002-07:002012-04-25T10:21:35.251-07:00Loving the What is of "Bad" communication<div style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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<br />
Let's say this is happening:
<br />
You are talking with someone.<br />
<br />
They are disgruntled with you.<br />
You are disgruntled with them.<br />
<br />
This happens, you know.<br />
<br />
And what's a "waking up" kind of person,<br />
an "on the way to enlightenment" person to do?<br />
<br />
Relax.<br />
<br />
Remember that the story: "This is supposed to be going<br />
better is just a story."<br />
<br />
Shift:<br />
To the present.<br />
To curiosity.<br />
To honesty.<br />
<br />
Try the truth,<br />
From the present: I'm feeling uncomfortable with how this is going,<br />
in my chest, and in my breathing and in my story that "you should be different"<br />
<br />
Try curiosity:<br />
I wonder what the secret war we are up to is.<br />
Or, I wonder how we're into I'm right , you're wrong land.<br />
Or, I wonder if we could do this differently.<br />
<br />
Try honesty:<br />
Part of me just wants to win this argument,<br />
another part wants to have peace and love.<br />
<br />
I'm not sure what to do, but I suspect we need to do something different.<br />
<br />
Try connecting:<br />
What do you think is missing?<br />
What would you like that you think you aren't getting?<br />
<br />
Something like that.<br />
<br />
That's the start.<br />
<br />
There's more.<br />
<br />
<b>Come to my workshop, if you are in Austin,<br />
May 3, 6-8 PM<br />
Reduced rates today, April 25 and tomorrow.<br />
$30 first person in relationship, business, group,<br />
$20 second.<br />
<br />
Price at door: $50/ $35.<br />
<br />
The aim of the workshop:<br />
Double income<br />
Double relationship happiness<br />
Double "enlightenment"<br />
<br />
See page at A<a href="http://4brainfitness.com/">wareness Equals Freedom</a> for the<br />
pay pal thingies.</b>
</div>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072701.post-32688507260316234922012-04-07T08:08:00.002-07:002012-04-07T08:08:51.409-07:00Yesterday is gone, one more healing game<span style="font-size: large;">YESTERDAY IS GONE</span><br />
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[One of the great glories of the past: It is over.]</b><br />
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<br />
Think of an argument or a disagreement you have about something your partner, even your imaginary partner, did in the past.<br />
Look at them, or imagine them in the present.<br />
Feel, breathe, sense, aware your world in the present.<br />
Then go back to the “story” about how the past “should have been different.”<br />
Then come back to the present.<br />
<br />
Look at them.<br />
Say this: “I can go into the past and make myself….(sad, unhappy, angry, etc, you fill in the blank) with this story {{{ gibberish, gibberish, gibberish}}}. Or I can be present and notice this…..(fill in the blank with the present).”<br />
<br />
Go back and forth on this for ten to twenty minutes. <br />
Feel the calming wonderful peace of the now.<br />
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