Good Morning!
And it's yet another beautiful, sunny day in Las Vegas! I never thought I'd say this but I miss the variations of weather I saw in Alaska--a couple of hours of gray would be a nice relief from the heat! Wow, I just said 'relief from the heat'--I have never thought that way before--maybe Alaska had a greater effect on me than I thought!
Summer Solstice is past once more. This year with all the planetary happenings, Solstice has brought up a lot of emotions for me. It is a time of change (change is the one constant we can count on!). For me the changes seem huge and difficult. But as my dear friend Linda pointed out (and not too gently either), it's only huge and difficult because I make it so. Because I resist allowing it to just happen. Because i believe it must be difficult and huge. Change my perspective and voilá, it is simple and easy. Thursday it was not easy. Today with a couple of days of perspective between, it seems much simpler (may be still not easy but because indeed, I did make it more complicated than it needed to be) but simpler.
As a result of this, the questions weighing in right now is--there is a fine line between acknowledging our feelings and feeling them so that they can be released and the line between wallowing in the feelings and letting them overtake us. Where is that line? What are the symptoms that you are about to cross it? How do you keep from crossing it? I haven't got the answers to these questions yet but please, keep on reading because I will come up with them for myself. Anything I learn I am compelled to share with my dear readers. If it helps--that's great and wonderful. If not, c'est la vie. (That's life.)
Maybe it is like the difference between pain and suffering. Pain is what you feel when you prick your finger. Suffering is when you see that you are going to prick your finger and you feel the anticipation of the pain. By anticipating the pain, we create the suffering--suffering is totally self-induced. Pain is in the moment, the now. Can you translate this from pain to the feeling line? I'm working on it. I've almost got it...