I know some really religious friends of mine who say a prayer for going to the bathroom. They thank G-d each morning, "blessed are you for providing the openings that allow me to go, without which I would die," is the basic translation. Incredible how we can take this for granted. I will definitely take more time to appreciate also that I can perform this independently. I work with a sweet little girl with CP who will need assistance, very sadly, likely for the rest of her life. Also, she has ta...
I know some really religious friends of mine who say a prayer for going to the bathroom. They thank G-d each morning, “blessed are you for providing the openings that allow me to go, without which I would die,” is the basic translation. Incredible how we can take this for granted. I will definitely take more time to appreciate also that I can perform this independently. I work with a sweet little girl with CP who will need assistance, very sadly, likely for the rest of her life. Also, she has taught me not to take speech for granted. Imagine understanding but not being able to express. I am always in awe of her willingness to communicate without speech, how she uses music to speak with me, and how I always know she is listening to me when we do our music therapy together. Whenever I am with her I become more grateful for everyday things I can do…everything.
I am touched by what you write… “she uses music to speak to me”. And everything you share about your experiences with her. Beautiful gratitudes. Bless you both.
Operating daily from the standpoint of the ego deposits the residues of fear, resentment, and anger in the auratic fields of the human being. These energetic artifacts accumulate to obscure the deeper reality that we are each an expression of divine love. Uncleared, these emotional relics will eventually precipitate from the subtle energy fields into the physical tissues and express there as dis-ease. Whether trauma, pathogens, or chronic imbalances in the body, our experience of illness has ene...
Operating daily from the standpoint of the ego deposits the residues of fear, resentment, and anger in the auratic fields of the human being. These energetic artifacts accumulate to obscure the deeper reality that we are each an expression of divine love. Uncleared, these emotional relics will eventually precipitate from the subtle energy fields into the physical tissues and express there as dis-ease. Whether trauma, pathogens, or chronic imbalances in the body, our experience of illness has energetic and emotional origins.
Every breath it [my body] takes, my lungs that work to provide the most elementary of need for survival, Oxygen; that I don’t have to think about it, I need no reminders, thankfully because otherwise I’d be in a lot of trouble :-), it happens effortlessly, in the background, while I go about my day.
I love this poem. "It could have been otherwise." She was such a wise woman and someone to model how we live after. I am always in awe of her later poems, when she was dying so young. She took life in such stride and with such grace. A great example of a poet who did not operate from a base of ego and need for encouragement from a crowd. She wrote the way she saw to help and nourish others. And the way she lived in nature with her dogs is so inspiring as well. I studied poetry in school, and sh...
I love this poem. “It could have been otherwise.” She was such a wise woman and someone to model how we live after. I am always in awe of her later poems, when she was dying so young. She took life in such stride and with such grace. A great example of a poet who did not operate from a base of ego and need for encouragement from a crowd. She wrote the way she saw to help and nourish others. And the way she lived in nature with her dogs is so inspiring as well. I studied poetry in school, and she’s one of the ones who really stuck out for me as a “real poet.”
Hello Becca, thank you for your thoughts on Jane Kenyon! It reminds me to return to others of her poems, which I have loved. Her life, as shared through her poetry, is a shining light.
So many miraculous blessings! For now, today, I am grateful for healthy eyes, ears, the felt sense of touch, the ability to smell, taste, and my whole body/ mind, through which I am able to think, feel, show up and move with relative dignity, grace and ease …
It's the alimentary canal. I never think about it except when I put something in it that it really objects to and the resulting bilious attack or bout of diarrhea lets me know that it's really angry, or some lasting discomfort nudges me to call in the health professionals. Day in and day out 24/7 it is beavering away processing food, sending nutrients all over the body, cleaning up, disposing of rubbish - the equivalent of the infrastructure of a great city. AC I'm grateful to you and will take...
It’s the alimentary canal. I never think about it except when I put something in it that it really objects to and the resulting bilious attack or bout of diarrhea lets me know that it’s really angry, or some lasting discomfort nudges me to call in the health professionals. Day in and day out 24/7 it is beavering away processing food, sending nutrients all over the body, cleaning up, disposing of rubbish – the equivalent of the infrastructure of a great city. AC I’m grateful to you and will take every opportunity to feed you the very best and keep in mind what you are doing for me.
My heart….started to have severe pulpitations and panic attacks resulting from it…till I found out what it was…
So grateful when I can rest and feel …nothing alarming
I have been recovering for some time from a rather far reaching illness, so I don’t take nearly as much for granted anymore. That said, it would probably be the network of arteries, veins, and capillaries that are such an efficient highway system for my body to get what it needs. Those little guys are rather like the shipping-train-trucking industry that moves goods all over the planet without us really stopping to marvel at how what we need came to be in front of us.
Since my kidneys do not work any more, I am acutely aware of what does. My heart, my lungs, my digestive system, my mind, my limbs… I am in a constant state of gratefulness. This is the “bless in the mess.”
Hello there, Always Learning! I am glad to see you here. I really have been touched by your comments over the months and just want to let you know that I am holding in my heart the very best wishes for you.
Always Learning, I remember you have said you are on dialysis and waiting for a 2nd kidney transplant. Yet with all you are going through, you are in a state of gratefulness. You are such an inspiration!! I hope you are feeling as well as possible. Many blessings to you.????
Thank you, Sheila. I have hit a glitch that may eliminate the possibility of another transplant. I am having testing next Tuesday to figure out what is going on. Although I am pretty upset, I am doing my best to stay in a positive state of mind.
I do not take the miraculous blessings of my body for granted and haven’t done so in years. Probably since I was a teenager and was complaining about my skinny legs until one day I saw an amputee with no legs. I then realized I had the most beautiful legs in the world because I had two legs that worked! I have been a runner since 1986 and every Christmas I treat myself to a morning running (my Christmas present to me) because I can run. So I will never take this body of mine for granted even ...
I do not take the miraculous blessings of my body for granted and haven’t done so in years. Probably since I was a teenager and was complaining about my skinny legs until one day I saw an amputee with no legs. I then realized I had the most beautiful legs in the world because I had two legs that worked! I have been a runner since 1986 and every Christmas I treat myself to a morning running (my Christmas present to me) because I can run. So I will never take this body of mine for granted even though it is aging and I run slower or sometimes run/walk. It is because I still can! And I do my best to take care of it because I intend to continue kicking butt when I am 90 God willing!
Its perseverance. I’m disabled–I suffered a traumatic brain injury in ’02–so I walk slowly with a cane, and my balance is pretty bad. But in the 15 years since my injury, my body has “adjusted” so that now, even though I can’t jump, run, etc., I’m still able to walk. And that’s an incredible blessing that I sometimes forget about. I thank God now for the ability to move on my own….because my injury could’ve been much worse.
I think i take for granted the sheer improbability of experiencing life in this meat suit. I rattle on about overpopulation a lot. Unfortunately, overpopulation also means that humans have become commonplace, instead of rare……..changing our perception of their worth.
Breath and pain. When pain occurs I would like it to go away, sooner rather than later. Yet pain has a lot to teach. Breath is another taken for granted blessing because it is automatic and it is very easy not to think of it unless you have a condition that impedes it. Actually, all of our body is miraculous and we only really seem to realize it when something is not working well.
There are many blessings of my body I do not take for granted, but this made me think of all the ones I do take for granted. One that came to my mind is my pancreas, it secretes just the right amount of insulin to keep my glucose level in the normal range. Thank-you for this question!
Blessings of peace to all.⚘
I know some really religious friends of mine who say a prayer for going to the bathroom. They thank G-d each morning, "blessed are you for providing the openings that allow me to go, without which I would die," is the basic translation. Incredible how we can take this for granted. I will definitely take more time to appreciate also that I can perform this independently. I work with a sweet little girl with CP who will need assistance, very sadly, likely for the rest of her life. Also, she has ta...
I know some really religious friends of mine who say a prayer for going to the bathroom. They thank G-d each morning, “blessed are you for providing the openings that allow me to go, without which I would die,” is the basic translation. Incredible how we can take this for granted. I will definitely take more time to appreciate also that I can perform this independently. I work with a sweet little girl with CP who will need assistance, very sadly, likely for the rest of her life. Also, she has taught me not to take speech for granted. Imagine understanding but not being able to express. I am always in awe of her willingness to communicate without speech, how she uses music to speak with me, and how I always know she is listening to me when we do our music therapy together. Whenever I am with her I become more grateful for everyday things I can do…everything.
I am touched by what you write… “she uses music to speak to me”. And everything you share about your experiences with her. Beautiful gratitudes. Bless you both.
Operating daily from the standpoint of the ego deposits the residues of fear, resentment, and anger in the auratic fields of the human being. These energetic artifacts accumulate to obscure the deeper reality that we are each an expression of divine love. Uncleared, these emotional relics will eventually precipitate from the subtle energy fields into the physical tissues and express there as dis-ease. Whether trauma, pathogens, or chronic imbalances in the body, our experience of illness has ene...
Operating daily from the standpoint of the ego deposits the residues of fear, resentment, and anger in the auratic fields of the human being. These energetic artifacts accumulate to obscure the deeper reality that we are each an expression of divine love. Uncleared, these emotional relics will eventually precipitate from the subtle energy fields into the physical tissues and express there as dis-ease. Whether trauma, pathogens, or chronic imbalances in the body, our experience of illness has energetic and emotional origins.
Every breath it [my body] takes, my lungs that work to provide the most elementary of need for survival, Oxygen; that I don’t have to think about it, I need no reminders, thankfully because otherwise I’d be in a lot of trouble :-), it happens effortlessly, in the background, while I go about my day.
It is miraculous, the impulse to breathe! I so often forget. Right now, I close the eyes, breathe in ‘yes’ and to breathe out ‘thank you.’
That I opened my eyes this morning and, as the poet Jane Kenyon wrote, “got out of bed on two strong legs” is a gift.
I love this poem. "It could have been otherwise." She was such a wise woman and someone to model how we live after. I am always in awe of her later poems, when she was dying so young. She took life in such stride and with such grace. A great example of a poet who did not operate from a base of ego and need for encouragement from a crowd. She wrote the way she saw to help and nourish others. And the way she lived in nature with her dogs is so inspiring as well. I studied poetry in school, and sh...
I love this poem. “It could have been otherwise.” She was such a wise woman and someone to model how we live after. I am always in awe of her later poems, when she was dying so young. She took life in such stride and with such grace. A great example of a poet who did not operate from a base of ego and need for encouragement from a crowd. She wrote the way she saw to help and nourish others. And the way she lived in nature with her dogs is so inspiring as well. I studied poetry in school, and she’s one of the ones who really stuck out for me as a “real poet.”
Hello Becca, thank you for your thoughts on Jane Kenyon! It reminds me to return to others of her poems, which I have loved. Her life, as shared through her poetry, is a shining light.
Yes!
So many miraculous blessings! For now, today, I am grateful for healthy eyes, ears, the felt sense of touch, the ability to smell, taste, and my whole body/ mind, through which I am able to think, feel, show up and move with relative dignity, grace and ease …
I agree, KC. A lovely way of saying it
It's the alimentary canal. I never think about it except when I put something in it that it really objects to and the resulting bilious attack or bout of diarrhea lets me know that it's really angry, or some lasting discomfort nudges me to call in the health professionals. Day in and day out 24/7 it is beavering away processing food, sending nutrients all over the body, cleaning up, disposing of rubbish - the equivalent of the infrastructure of a great city. AC I'm grateful to you and will take...
It’s the alimentary canal. I never think about it except when I put something in it that it really objects to and the resulting bilious attack or bout of diarrhea lets me know that it’s really angry, or some lasting discomfort nudges me to call in the health professionals. Day in and day out 24/7 it is beavering away processing food, sending nutrients all over the body, cleaning up, disposing of rubbish – the equivalent of the infrastructure of a great city. AC I’m grateful to you and will take every opportunity to feed you the very best and keep in mind what you are doing for me.
My heart….started to have severe pulpitations and panic attacks resulting from it…till I found out what it was…
So grateful when I can rest and feel …nothing alarming
“the cooperation between the different organs …”
that it is alive
how does it do that?
I have been recovering for some time from a rather far reaching illness, so I don’t take nearly as much for granted anymore. That said, it would probably be the network of arteries, veins, and capillaries that are such an efficient highway system for my body to get what it needs. Those little guys are rather like the shipping-train-trucking industry that moves goods all over the planet without us really stopping to marvel at how what we need came to be in front of us.
Since my kidneys do not work any more, I am acutely aware of what does. My heart, my lungs, my digestive system, my mind, my limbs… I am in a constant state of gratefulness. This is the “bless in the mess.”
Hello there, Always Learning! I am glad to see you here. I really have been touched by your comments over the months and just want to let you know that I am holding in my heart the very best wishes for you.
Always Learning, I remember you have said you are on dialysis and waiting for a 2nd kidney transplant. Yet with all you are going through, you are in a state of gratefulness. You are such an inspiration!! I hope you are feeling as well as possible. Many blessings to you.????
Thank you, Sheila. I have hit a glitch that may eliminate the possibility of another transplant. I am having testing next Tuesday to figure out what is going on. Although I am pretty upset, I am doing my best to stay in a positive state of mind.
I do not take the miraculous blessings of my body for granted and haven’t done so in years. Probably since I was a teenager and was complaining about my skinny legs until one day I saw an amputee with no legs. I then realized I had the most beautiful legs in the world because I had two legs that worked! I have been a runner since 1986 and every Christmas I treat myself to a morning running (my Christmas present to me) because I can run. So I will never take this body of mine for granted even ...
I do not take the miraculous blessings of my body for granted and haven’t done so in years. Probably since I was a teenager and was complaining about my skinny legs until one day I saw an amputee with no legs. I then realized I had the most beautiful legs in the world because I had two legs that worked! I have been a runner since 1986 and every Christmas I treat myself to a morning running (my Christmas present to me) because I can run. So I will never take this body of mine for granted even though it is aging and I run slower or sometimes run/walk. It is because I still can! And I do my best to take care of it because I intend to continue kicking butt when I am 90 God willing!
Its perseverance. I’m disabled–I suffered a traumatic brain injury in ’02–so I walk slowly with a cane, and my balance is pretty bad. But in the 15 years since my injury, my body has “adjusted” so that now, even though I can’t jump, run, etc., I’m still able to walk. And that’s an incredible blessing that I sometimes forget about. I thank God now for the ability to move on my own….because my injury could’ve been much worse.
Perserverance is a good one. It takes a lot to get up day after day to face health difficulties and keep focusing on the positive. Blessings to you!
I think i take for granted the sheer improbability of experiencing life in this meat suit. I rattle on about overpopulation a lot. Unfortunately, overpopulation also means that humans have become commonplace, instead of rare……..changing our perception of their worth.
The miraculous process of ingestion, absorption, elimination.
Maybe my lungs to breathe. No life without breath.
Breath and in up to a certain point, self-healing.
Breath and pain. When pain occurs I would like it to go away, sooner rather than later. Yet pain has a lot to teach. Breath is another taken for granted blessing because it is automatic and it is very easy not to think of it unless you have a condition that impedes it. Actually, all of our body is miraculous and we only really seem to realize it when something is not working well.
There are many blessings of my body I do not take for granted, but this made me think of all the ones I do take for granted. One that came to my mind is my pancreas, it secretes just the right amount of insulin to keep my glucose level in the normal range. Thank-you for this question!
Blessings of peace to all.⚘
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