Feeling good even though part of you feels bad

 

Paintings by yours truly

Fun to be "not yet good" at something
lots of learning for now, and tomorrow and so on

You could be "broken hearted," but what if you paid
attention to your feet feeling good,
and made a list of 100 things for which you were grateful

You could have 'too much' in your belly
and realize:
hey, a chance to slow down, and
take a walk
and sense my brething
and see what happens to me moving
in ways that remind me of places besides the belly
in me
that are enjoyable

and right now,
sweet reader,
what is enjoyable in you?

as a sensation?

As a feeling?

What gratitudes are lurking,
and can you jot down ten?

The warm sweet outside air
the miracle of this computer stuff
tea that I made for myself
the tai chi I'm inventing
Love returning
the summer coming on
my amazing spine holding up my amazing head
the skills I have in the world of Neurological Upgrading
the difference I can make in people's lives
the invention of moving toward of a Process of transformation
moving with ease
feeling happy almost at will

eating too much
so I'll have something to write about

what's your awareness list
or
your gratitude list
and
have you been outdoors in
the last several hours.

I haven't and intend to once this is done
and three
(and no more than three)
emails are rewritten

I'm grateful that I have this skill
and often remember it,
being intuitively aware
when "enough is enough"

and knowing when "enough is enough"
on the computer
is a grand, sweet skill

necessary I do believe
to the survival of the species

if we forget to walk
and forget to love nature

we are doomed

my opinion,
and I'm happy now
the species can be doomed
or not

to be present is to be happy

.............

enough is enough here..


Do consider buying my book and having a transformation
game a day for 108 days.

link here: Contents of 108 Game/ lesson/ adventure/ meditation Book

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Day Sixteen: Sweet Sixteen, sweet and bitter straws of life

DAY SIXTEEN
Sweet sixteen, how to sweeten our day

We can sip our day through a straw of bitterness.

We can sip our day through a straw of sweetness.


This is our chance for an amazing exploration, if we are but willing to be honest with ourselves. Because sometimes we just suck away at the bitter straw, as if that is all that life has to offer us.


So, this is our job today, to watch what is the flavor of life we are sucking: sweet, bitter, worried, hurried, in a trance, tense, free, curious, excited, happy, fearful, confused.

See if the flavors come closer to the sweetness of life, or a sort of bitter coat, or a distracted, not even their kind of feeling and flow to our lives.


Some people recommend forgiveness as the way out of bitterness, and we will, in our Work of Byron Katie time, explore the premier way to forgive (my opinion, not fact.)


Other people recommend gratefulness as a path back to the sweet straw, and you could try that if you want to.


Other’s recommend just being in the now, and in this book that means sensing arms and legs (so far, more to come), and breathing in the moment. You can try that.

You can try coming out of that bitter swirl of words and back to sensing our bodies in the present.

And then seeing what kind of shift might take place to a straw of sweetness to sip our day.

Day Three: A possibility, emotional choosing

As we go through our day, let’s keep sensing our legs and sensing our breathing and noticing along with that: how are we feeling?

When do we feel happy?

When do we feel sad?

When do we feel angry, afraid, worried, and so on.

Can we just notice that and come back to sensing our legs and our breathing?

Maybe we can.

Maybe we can’t.

Maybe we sometimes can and sometimes can’t.

Consider this in a strange and very revealing way. After each emotion, let us all play with the idea, the possibility of ourselves as having CHOSEN that emotion.

Don’t think about this.

Just notice and come back to the now of legs and breathing.

That’s “all,” and that’s a lot, and it is a “lot” to live in this miracle of the present.

Play with noticing our feelings.

Play with the idea of having chosen them.

Play with the coming back to the ongoing reality of legs and breathing. Sounds so humdrum compared to the drama of all our emotional “stuff.”

So what?

Come on back to now, and see how powerful that this really is.

This now, too, always this now as we read, as I write, as we put down the book and go about our life.


And at the end of the day, in bed, before going to sleep, each day review the game/ lesson/ meditation of the day.

Good.

What's love got to do with it, 2?

what's love got to do with it:


everything

and when
we hurt
are in
pain
wish we / they / the world
was treating us better

then we feel
the pain of not
being in love
with the Now

and maybe
that wakes us
up

maybe not

an amazing
and huge
and every second/ moment
present
choice

good.