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Don’t Hesitate

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Don’t you hesitate to call on me,

if you’re feeling down.

You can just pick up the phone,

if no one else is around.

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Of course I will drop everything,

if I am needed by your side.

It doesn’t matter how I feel,

if I’m sick or feeling tired.

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That’s what friends are here for, 

just call and they’ll come.

Wanting to make you happy again,

bring you back the sun.

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If you find that you are hurting,

They will cancel their plans.

Knowing it’s so important to you,

that someone understands.

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When the shoe is on the other foot,

will I find you when I call.

I imagine you’ll be too busy for me,

and won’t pick up at all.

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So I’m changing how I do things,

you’ll learn the hardest way.

The very next time you need me,

you’ll find me busy or away!

~

Daily Prompt – Hesitate

I can honestly say I am blessed with friends. I used to have friends like this, but I stopped picking up the phone and now I’m left with the most wonderful friends who have seen me through the best and darkest of times. Of course I will always be there for them too, I joke with one of them that she’ll never go in a nursing home, although we laugh and joke that we will probably be there together causing havoc, I mean it.

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Visiting the Past

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Do you travel back in time in your day dreams, do you ever visit your memories?

Memories are often precious because of the experience of feelings within them. The feelings of love, laughter and safety being the most powerful memories for me. When I think back on my life, the most prevalent memories I pull out are of laughter and love, the feelings of being loved and cared for and among friends and family.

I’ve had my ups and downs in life like anyone else, but the memories from those bad times are never as powerful as those of the good. For me I view the more difficult periods of my life in a detached state, I observe what was happening but don’t associate with the feelings as I survived them, they won’t occur again at least not in the same way because I have learnt from them. But to view those happier moments I’m back there, I step right in, I’m loved and laughing, I get every one of the feelings as if I am reliving the event.

I can close my eyes and walk back into my childhood home and feel as loved and safe as I ever was, when I do my mum is still alive, I can speak to her, smell her and hold her. I usually find myself sitting at the kitchen table and watching her as she cooks, at other times we might be on one of our long walks.  Sometimes these dreams are so real it is as if I have crossed time, I observe the most intricate details, things I might have forgotten spring back into mind.

I can also see myself, if I try, desolate and lost after my husband left me, standing in a field in Spain, but as I look back, I’m looking towards the future across that field. On going back to what was at the time a painful experience, I take the knowledge with me that I survived and moved on, it was for the best and meant to be. So while the love never dies and can be captured at any moment the pain does in fact fade.

I can step into any moment because it is all part of me, I don’t hesitate, I know where I’m going. For me it only takes a slight change, a mediative or altered state to get there.

We can shudder at the thought of some of those more difficult events but are they the same as those wonderful memories? I bet if you give it a go, close your eyes and reconnect I think you’ll find that the good floats far more easily to the surface.

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Big Question

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Who is in the centre of all being,

at the root of all that is now.

Who controls the sun and moon,  

they must be moved somehow.

Which religion has it just right,

or are they clutching at straws.

Who is it watching over us,

is anyone keeping the scores.

I ask how the weathers dictated,

what are the reasons for rain.

Who is it that greets our arrival,

is it them that sends us again.

Who is at the centre of being,

are they helped in their task.

Is there a system of assistance,

I do hope and pray that it lasts.

So then I think of a hierarchy,

is there anyone standing in line.

Suppose I’ll see when I get there,

as it’s just only a matter of time.

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Daily Prompt Word – Centre

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At the Centre

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What is real is at the heart centre of each of us, it is the pure self. The self that is emptiness, the self that is timeless and beyond anything else. To be truly aware of oneself, one should attempt to seek the silence within, the pure state of consciousness that is at the centre of everything that is.

Easier said than done with the constant chatter of the mind to distract us. How many times do we put off meditation because of something external that distracts us. The walk in nature interrupted by thoughts of the city or just pure self sabotage. How often do we actually breath with awareness and take time out of life to find ourselves.  

The heart centre is the very essence of being that the mind does not want us to find.

~ Liza

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Daily Prompt Word – Centre

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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

 

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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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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Slur

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I beg your pardon, I did not slur,

you’re mistaken it did not occur.

I’m okay, in fact I’m totally fine, 

I assure you I can hold my wine.

It must be your ears, full of wax, 

before you accuse, get your facts.

I am not drunk and I did not slur, 

but now your face is just all a blur.

~

Fun response to the Daily Prompt word – Slur

Have you Heard?

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Have you heard the latest,

the worlds turned upside down.

Everybody seems angry,

with their faces covered in frowns.

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Have you heard about fake news,

you just can’t tell if it’s true.

As if you listen to what your told,

it’s as likely be fake too.

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Have you heard about listening,

to no one else but yourself.

Coming to you own conclusions,

not hearing anything else.

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Daily Prompt – Heard

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