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donderdag 26 april 2007 |
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‘The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing The Wind’ By Matthew Delooze | matthew-delooze.blogspot.com The festival season is once again upon us and its not easy to get straight to the point of the information that I want to relay to you in this article, from cold so to speak, but I will try my best. I need you to open your minds, if only for a short time, and think for yourself. OK? So let us begin. Why do you go to festivals? What is the attraction? What magnetic force is in operation that reels you in like an easy victim of an expert fisherman? Is it just the beautiful music that you yearn to hear? Are you enchanted by the lyrics of a clever song writer? Do you go to festivals just to see one or more of your idols in the flesh? Do you go to festivals for spiritual reasons , are your spirits raised so much by the festival atmosphere that you are almost in a constant state of bliss when you are there? Do you go to festivals just to ‘show your face’, chill out, take drugs, get laid or just to make money selling pies and hotdogs? Maybe you just feel the emotion of ‘hapiness’ whilst at the festivals and they have become a welcomed escape from the shitty world you usually live in? Maybe you just ‘respect’ the festival scene in general and the people who attend them and of course there is nothing wrong with that at all. The main question I ask you, on a five sense level, is why do you think an establishment, that usually oppresses the masses, allows festivals to go ahead in the first place? Is it because they put your ‘leisure activities’ at the top of their priority list ? I don’t think so for one minute. Do You? Could the existence of festivals have more to do with ‘spiritual’ energies than physical ones? I certainly think so. I ask you to consider for a moment that, on a spiritual level, the crowd maybe being attracted to the festival to be spiritually ‘exploited’ in the guise of receiving physical and spiritual pleasure. If this is true then sadly the crowd are also ‘paying’ to be exploited , not only that but as far as the more popular festivals are concerned the people actually fight, beg or steal to get tickets to attend them. Anyway, lets get to the point: Read more here
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Valuable Information The Message Of Pain When we feel pain, our first impulse is often to eradicate it with medication. This is an understandable response, but sometimes in our hurry to get rid of pain, we forget that it is the body's way of letting us know that it needs our attention. A headache can inform us that we're hungry or stressed just as a sore throat might be telling us that we need to rest our voice. If we override these messages instead of respond to them, we risk worsening our condition. In addition, we create a feeling of disconnectedness between our minds and our bodies. Physical pain is not the only kind of pain that lets us know our attention is needed. Emotional pain provides us with valuable information about the state of our psyche, letting us know that we have been affected by something and that we would do well to focus our awareness inward. Just as we tend to a cut on our arm by cleaning and bandaging it, we treat a broken heart by surrounding ourselves with love and support. In both cases, if we listen to our pain we will know what to do to heal ourselves. It's natural to want to resist pain, but once we understand that it is here to give us valuable information, we can relax a bit more, and take a moment to listen before we reach for medication. Sometimes this is enough to noticeably reduce the pain, because its message has been heard. Perhaps we seek to medicate pain because we fear that if we don't, it will never go away. It can be empowering to realize that, at least some of the time, it is just a matter of listening and responding. The next time you feel pain, either physical or emotional, you might want to try listening to your own intuition about how to relieve your pain. Maybe taking a few deep breaths will put an end to that headache. Perhaps writing in your journal about hurt feelings will ease your heart. Ultimately, the message of pain is all about healing.
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