Sleeping too much

Hello @Former-Member xx

I hope you are feeling a bit better today my friend

sening you some tender hugs

HI @Appleblossom@Former-Member

I know about the chakra things - and as strange as anything might seem to me - if it works - it works - and I don't need to worry about psychic healing - I know it can happen

The Sacred Heart though - the first time I saw a pic of that - which I consider beautiful art btw - I was maybe 10 or 11 and I went into an Irish Catholic home and saw this right inside the front door and from a Protestant back ground this was startling

But it is a powerful image - however it is done - and there must be some kind of archtypal truth there - about the pain in your solar plexus Tawnz and the chakra Apple -

The Ancients thought the heart to be the place of the emotions - and yes - we can get chest pain under stress - why not - when stressed our chest has lungs and heart inside it - and we find it hard to breath and our heart can race under tough conditions

I'm hoping Christmas is not too hard on you Tawnz - and I am thinking of both you girls - and I am glad we have the website and our Forum Family open 24/7 through the tough days of Christmas -

Dec

Hi @Former-Member

I will be having someone take me shopping this afternoon to finish of the bits and pieces of what I need as well as get my weekly stuff

And this afternoon my daughter is picking me up to have Christmas with all the kids - I have 7 great-grandhchildren - and on Christmas Day dd, gd and sil are bringing breakfast up here - which is different - and I didn't have to have that difficult conversation with her this year - about wanting to see her on Christmas Day - everything else she can say No to - but not seeing her on Christmas Day

So that didn't happen. She has chosen to sit on the fence between me and TS - I don't say anything about TS to her - but what does TS about me? Not my problem -

But TS and her needing to control everything is something I am so over I am really tired of it. It has become old and boring and I wish I could switch her out of my brain - I am planning to practise some different thinking over the holidays - she has no control over me and I need her out of my head

But apart from that - getting reading for Christmas has been better this year than I can remember

I hope you're okay Tawnz and have a good time with your son on Christmas Day

[hugs]

Dec

Sure he'll eat whatevers there if not ,favourites work @Former-Member just lobbed in SA to yet another blackout no cash no fuel no food why does anyone live here lol

Have an old book integrating Christian theology and yoga by French Benedictine monk

I suspect too many Christians got caught out in repeating the literal words of "official" prayers.

I meditated .. basic eastern styles with different focii for decades before I went back .. lapsed catholic .. but continual spirituality.

Contemplation of own life through the lens of various christian, sikh, yogic or buddhist and probably islamic prayer practises too.

Through visualisations ... but with gentle mindfulness attitude .. notice when mind travels .. and then a simple return to the breathe and the IMAGE or MANTRA or inspirational WORD or HOPE.

There are heaps of sites in the cyberspace with specifics.

They have worked out that there are particular GLANDS secreting HORMONES that associate with chakras ..

I could not meditate well for a while .. so kept active and musical ... in between resting .. but glad to say meditation practise is back to being more grounding again.

My mother scoffed at me as a woman without a prayer life .. but she di not even try to know me .. just control an dominate me .. its sad all the ifficulties we have with our nearest and dearest.

Gotta go

Love to you all