Author: lizaaitken

Mother, daughter, sister, cat owner/slave. Thoughtful about life and trying to make it worthwhile.

Jiggle

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I’m having to jiggle things round a bit,

for future plans I have to make.

There’s things I need to sort out now,

with some decisions to be made.

With my life just like a jigsaw puzzle,

some shapes not fitting into place.

I’ll  think about the sharp edges first,

before I fill that middle space.

I’ll have to make the picture clear,

so I’ll see where it is I’m going.

I so need a future that is easier now,

I really  want it to be flowing.

I’ll continue to jiggle it around,

until I’m certain I have it right.

Some bits are a little harder to fit,

the space for them is tight.

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Daily Prompt Word – Jiggle

 

A Place of Being

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There are so many things I’ve wanted to be and so many things I’ve been.  

Do we ever really know what’s good for us or where our life is going. Maybe it’s just about remaining open to adventure, open to experience and learning. If life is a lesson then I’m a good way through, I’ve taken note along the way and taken part in some practical experiments. I have photographic evidence and have made a number of conclusions. Millions of thoughts have crossed my mind and a number of questions have been answered.

I have not reached the outcome yet but I’m closer to understanding what it might look like. I’ve evolved, transformed and renewed and continue to do so in the hope that I might at some point reach a place of being.

~ Liza

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To Let go of Control

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However much we try we are not able to control our lives, we may believe we are in control but we are not, it’s just that at the present time the universe might be working with us.  It’s difficult to let go and trust, trust that all will work out and we will end up where we should.  We are programmed from an early age to reach out and take what we want in life, get a good education, good job, find a partner and produce the perfect family.  We are told from a very early age that we are in control and if anything goes wrong, does not go to plan then it is down to us.  We are our own judge and jury and quite easily condemn ourselves believing somehow that everything has gone wrong is our own stupid faults.

Is the flower in control when it does not rain, is the washing on the line responsible for the downpour.  Let’s think about it for a moment and see what the world around us can show us. A fire goes out when there is nothing left to burn but it is incapable of getting it’s own fuel, do you think the fire blames itself, of course not, the thing to blame if there is anything is the man that let the fire go out.  You see, we humans are programmed to take the blame.   But we cannot be responsible for everything that happens to us, all we can do is try our very best.

When things go wrong, there is very little we can actually do if they are meant to go wrong, if they are not actually wrong but destined to happen.  It’s a chain of events as I see it because if something goes wrong for one person it is very often going right for someone else.  Think about it, only one person can get the job, the house, the car, and for every success there is likely to be a disappointment.  Thought about this way it’s easier to see why things don’t go right all the time, things need to be shared out.  The rain might not be falling on the flower because the cloud has burst somewhere else it is needed, sometimes we have to wait our turn.

If we can let go of the need to control and believe that things happen for a reason life is much easier to bare.  If there is someone or something up there listening to our prayers, surely they have a list, like any other job, they will have to prioritise.  Yet do we ever pray for something when the time is right, not really we pray when we need something.

We can still hope for the right outcome, we can still wish but just as there is night and day there will be ups and downs in life and this really is probably what it is all about.  Taking each day as it comes, rejoicing in what we do have and remaining hopeful for what may or may not come.  Sometimes those things we fear are the biggest blessings, if we can only let go of our need to control and realise we are all in this together, we will get what we need even if it isn’t immediately obvious when it comes.  The key to this I think is trusting and letting go, be happy for the rain when it falls and sun when it shines because somewhere it’s needed.

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Nature Lessons 184

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To survive the arid conditions some plants adapt their lifestyles, physical and behavioural mechanisms to enable them to survive periods of drought.  Some have adapted and grown extremely long roots which provides a better chance of acquiring moisture.  Some shed their leaves which allows them to store more water, some remain dormant.  We all go through periods of drought in life, times of stress and adversity, periods in which we are unable to control the events that are happening around us.  Sometimes it seems that the world is against us and we are not able, or fighting to hold onto the things we need to survive.  There is something to learn from remaining grounded during periods such as this, letting go of what does not serve us and keeping our emotions in check until better days come along.

~ Liza 

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Daily Prompt Word – Arid

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Nature Lessons 183

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Each flower in a bunch blossoms and opens independently of the others. Each with its own beauty and individual essence. Together they are something to behold, the sight and smell breathtaking but each got there itself, each pushing itself out into the world, each with its own individual strength. Isn’t it time we took notice of the lessons of nature.

~ Liza


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The Flow of the River

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The river flows across the land, made up of water from smaller streams, rainfall and water from a multitude of sources. The river is heading for the sea. It does not at source know its destination, is not told how to get there and has no life plan. The river does not have a guru to point the way it just flows through its life until it gets there. 

Are we as people so much different from the river, why the desperate search for answers, why do we need a direction, because often when we think we have one, there’s a turn of events, like the bend in a river we are guided in another direction completely. Whatever happens we will all reach our destination, maybe we should stop thinking so much about how we get there and just let go. Watch and allow the journey to unfold around us, have more time for what is now and join in with the natural flow of the universe.

~ Liza

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Where would you go?

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Imagine if there really was no such thing as time, everything was and is happening at this precise moment in some form and you could go anywhere, where would you go? If I could take you somewhere, back in the past or into the future, where would it be?  A past life maybe, somewhere to perhaps remember the lessons of that life or into the future to see where you might end up in say five or ten years or even into a future life.  Wouldn’t it be interesting, maybe we would recognise each other in another form or those we know today?

I went for regression therapy myself after my mother died, I couldn’t come to terms with her death and was in a state of grief. It had always been something mum wanted to do herself, on her bucket list so to speak so I thought I’d give it a go myself.  I was taken back in this life, taken just a short while back and then further to the point of my mothers death.  This might sound morbid but it was something I couldn’t allow into my thoughts, I was I suppose in a state of denial. Seeing it again, or rather viewing it from another point of existence sort of made it real for me, I cried buckets as you can imagine but I accepted her death.  I went back further to a teenager, oh how I felt sorry for that poor girl, know all know nothing I think the term is, I loved her anyway, I think she needed that.  I went back to being a toddler, felt the enormous love of my mother and to a baby in the womb listening to my dad sing.  This might seem far fetched to those that won’t allow their minds to travel this way but to me it was cathartic and healing.  Even if my body was just lying on that couch, my mind was able to expand, travel and heal.

I travelled back through other lifetimes, some of no interest, I looked on detached from what I saw.  One woman, who I believed I was, I had no time for, she was bitter and twisted and had wasted her life.  I experienced her as an old woman and felt there was not much else for her to do with that life but die and try again in another life.  I found myself as a doctor in one life, looking at my shoes I was amazed to find myself as a man, he is my favourite so far, he kept a journal of his findings and died with the journal open next to him on the bed.  Would you believe I found him the next day on the internet, he looked exactly the same and when I read about him it was the same as I had learnt during the session, mind blowing!

So what can we get from past lives, I think lots of lessons.  As much as I loved the doctor, loved the fact he wrote and was passionate about his lives work, I also understood his loneliness, he had sacrificed family, never marrying or having children being married to his work.  I learnt from him about balance, to be committed to your work might be wonderful but make room for love.  In this life as much as my career has been important, never more than my love for my family and friends, they will always come out on top.

Recently I’ve been into the future, or the best possible future to how I’m living today.  I’ve been forward five and ten years and it’s fascinating.  I can see potential and possibility, it has given me, above all, hope.  I’ve trained as a Past Life Regression and Future Life Progression (FLP) practitioner now, another tool for my box of tricks and I’m having fun experimenting with my new found skills. If I can help people see possibilities then that has to be good.

I think both the past and future can help us make sense of the present, I think we can understand the lessons in this life that sometimes seem pointless or cruel.  I can see why some people appear to have it all and others nothing at all but do believe in balance as in some way or another, life or lives will even out.

This post is not in any way meant to offend, I’m not pushing any beliefs on anyone as I believe being present in the moment every bit as important, I’m just curious and for me I’ve found these therapies helpful in making sense of now.  So if you could go anywhere in time, where would it be?

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Come Sit..

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Come  here to sit with me for a while, 

under this this kindly tree.

Let us talk some of times gone by,

and see what we might see.

Let us travel beyond those years,

to when we were together.

Cuddled up here in this same place,

sheltering from the weather.

Can you remember what we agreed,

while we sat here that day.

To remember me with happiness,

especially when I’m away.

The tree can certainly bare witness,

look at him bow his head.

He can see me sit beside you here,

he understands I’m not dead.

It’s only another dimension I’m in,

I can still sit here with you.

I want you to remember what we said,

and to remember it as true.

I’ll always be close beside you my dear,

wherever it is you might be.

But instantly I’ll connect with you here,

if ever you sit under this tree.

~

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