Light Happens

How can one inspire oneself?  With aggravations at work, challenges in school, things to do to take care of the house, yard, and debts, realizing that age is creeping forth with yet so many adventures and fun things to do…  Life happens but yes…  LIFE HAPPENS!  Life is going to do its thing wherever it can, whenever it can, and in the most extreme of situations.  People, animals, and plants go through amazing challenges and still make it.  Even at the tiniest level, extremophiles thrive. 

It is a good thing to listen to your body.  Personally, I’ve been suffering from some non-descript issue in my leg and butt but because both legs hurt so badly I had begun to wonder if I had some horrible degenerative disease.  (Part of being an “adult child” as John Bradshaw describes it is “catastrophizing” – as it’s part of my PTSD and so I have to talk myself down a lot and use the Occam’s Razor line of reasoning.)  I quit such strenuous workouts at the gym thinking maybe I had overdone it since that was the most reasonable cause.  I asked my body and really listened to it this time since at one time my body answered after first saying to me “you’re not listening if you expect to hear the same thing.”  My body said to not use weights on my legs and just do the treadmill at a slow place to retrain how I walk.  It’s been a meditative process to focus so heavily on my stride and walk to avoid the pain.  My walk is moving from being so heavy on the fronts of the thighs to engaging more muscles in the backs of the legs and the butt.  It is a new walk that will sustain me for the last half of my life and I will be stronger as a result.

My boyfriends elbow strangely inflamed this past week and he has been icing it and taking aspiring and communicating with it:  checking in with it by touch and attention.  It is a good thing to listen to our bodies.  My sister has been put on new medication and has more energy and is responding to that energy by engaging herself more in activity.  Others are having body “life happens” experiences too.  Some are more serious than others.

My nephew is fighting a huge battle with Lymphona.  After 9 rounds of chemo and radiation, he just had a stem cell transplant from his youngest brother.  He has an amazing attitude with a loving family and friends for support.  Although his prognosis is a challenging one, we all believe he can make it.  Life does happen, after all.  There are opposites, life is energy, energy is wave forms, and all wave forms have a complement.  Death happens too. 

 

The earth is not flat.  We do not sail to the end and then fly off in to the abyss.  To reason that just because we don’t know what is beyond life to mean that there is no beyond is actually faulty reasoning to me.  If we look at the fractal nature of reality and that patterns repeat from high to low and low to high levels, we can argue that the universe goes on and on and on.  Someone could still argue that this is just “physical” reality.  What is “physical” anyway?  Is it just what we can experience with our senses and our instruments?  If so, then we are limiting ourselves because our instruments and our senses just seem to be getting more acute and be discovering more physical reality.  Only on August 31, yet another new element was discovered.  Ununpentium.  Does this mean that it didn’t exist before just because we didn’t know it was there?

In life, what type of energy is it that is causing the moving forward, propelling life to happen, and to happen at such sophistication?  What kind of forces can create things such as physical brains and minds that can contemplate consciousness and the consciousness of itself, and consciousness expanded beyond the confines of self? 

So to “inspire oneself” as inspire means “to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence” – one can truly contemplate this such that “life happens” business.  To me, experientially, viscerally, and in reason, it makes perfect sense that when we part from our loved ones and we don’t know what is on the other side, we can rest assured that it is something, but something beyond our current comprehension and scope of knowledge.

We are school children in this consciousness thing and can’t even come to agreement on what we believe the definition of consciousness is not to mention what causes it, so how can we claim that it is gone just because the brain is dead?  I believe that personality is soul on brain-stuff.  Sure, to me, soul can have a physical component that is not measurable in this realm with our instruments of body or technology. 

 

Personalities die.  We become different people not only through re-creation of our cells, but of our personalities.  I’m glad I don’t have the personality that I had years ago.  I’ll probably be glad – or some other state of being – when I lose my current personality when I die.  When we all were younger we couldn’t even begin to conceive of what we would know, understand, experience…  how we would be living today.  I suspect the same continues as we part from our corporeal selves.

It is a good thing to contemplate death sometimes.  It gives us the contrast to consider that we bury the old and sprout the new.  Life is precious and valuable.  It is a sacred experience as LIFE HAPPENS.

p.s.  There is an organization with a local chapter with speakers who speak of their near death experiences.  Also, I just recently got the Eben Alexander book entitled “Proof of Heaven.” I heard him speak at our local IANDS and it is an amazing story.  He’s a neurosurgeon who had an NDE and brain images show that his experience was NOT brain based.