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		<title>Mind &amp; Mountain Hike August 25th Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a Sufi poem by Hazrat Inayat Khan I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love and God gave me people to help. I asked for favors and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.]]></description>
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		<title>Mind &amp; Mountain Hike #5</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever notice the same message popping up over and over again in a short span of time? For me, in the last four days,  this message has been &#8220;in my face&#8221; literally.  I don&#8217;t know if you recall the movie LA Story with Steve Martin. In it, his character receives messages via a huge lit highway billboard. The billboard in my life says &#8220;YOU MUST MEDITATE&#8221;. It  is also saying, slow down and get to that place of &#8220;nothing&#8221;, a clear, observant quiet mind. Yikes! I never get there. The reading I shared with the hiking group yesterday was from Lao Tzu, known as the father of Taoism: &#8220;We join spokes togther in a  wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.&#8221; I found this in a great book called &#8220;The Joy Diet&#8221; by Martha Beck which descibes 10 Daily Practices for a Happier life. Low and behold, practice #1 is to develop the habit of &#8220;doing nothing&#8221; for 15 minutes a day. You can order her book here- I recommend all of her books! This is VERY difficult for me but, I do believe, that if the universe is set on giving me a message, it&#8217;s because I need it so I&#8217;m staying open and seeing how I can surrender to this idea. The first thing I did was referred back to all the meditation suggestions I&#8217;ve received in the past. Here are the ones I liked: 1. Repeating a mantra- I love this one, any snaskrit seems to work for me because of the resonating sounds it produces and the trance-like sensation it creates. 2. Self-hypnosis. I&#8217;m proud to say I&#8217;m very suggestible (ha ha) so I hypnotize easily. I love guided hypnosis. It&#8217;s like a daydreaming trip that you take in a relaxed state. It&#8217;s great. I highly recommend it. 3. Guided meditation (like the end of yoga class in shavasanna) where a soothing voiced leader tells you how to release you mind. Soooo lovely. 4. A reminder of a reading from Eckhart Tolle- this is NOT a direct quote- that suggests meditation (and enlightenment) exists in the SPACE BETWEEN YOUR THOUGHTS. This works for me&#8230;.even those the space is a mere 5 seconds, I like this! I can DO this kind of meditation! 5.  Engaging in meditation WHILE doing regular activities like eating, bathing, doing the dishes, walking or even working. I knew a physio who saw every treatment session as a meditation where he put himself in a serene and very connected state so he could study the patient&#8217;s energy and treat it appropriately. P.S. This takes practice and a project you take on when you are a reasonably &#8220;seasoned&#8221; meditator. 6. Using pre-made CD&#8217;s to guide you (using special recording technologies). I forward you this link with a caution- it&#8217;s a sales pitch for a product that I am not endorsing but that MAY suit someone out there, the information in the video is good though! A video on stress, brain waves and a free CD offering. Have a great day!]]></description>
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		<title>Mind &amp; Mountain Hike #4 Nine Life Lessons Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read more about Matthew Childs here]]></description>
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		<title>Mind &amp; Mountain Hike #3 Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s reading was a short one by Judith Hanson Lasater, who holds a PhD in East-West psychology and is also a physical therapist, from her book called &#8220;A Year of Living your Yoga&#8221;: &#8220;There is no escape.&#8221; She adds: &#8220;Longing for escape is a waste of time. Even if we go on an exotic vacation, w still bring our thoughts with us. The only true escape is through transformation, and the only true transformation is freedom from thoughts. Today when you remember to, say to yourself this Mantra for Daily Living: I have thoughts but I am not my thoughts.&#8221; You can read more from Judith here.]]></description>
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		<title>Mind and Mountain Hike #2 Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad had this poem tacked to his bulletin board in his office and I must have read it hundreds of times as a kid. It&#8217;s by Rudyard Kipling (winner of the Nobel Prize or Literature in 1907) and author of &#8220;The Jungle Book&#8221;. Here it is:       IF IF you can keep your head when all about you  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don&#8217;t deal in lies, Or being hated, don&#8217;t give way to hating, And yet don&#8217;t look too good, nor talk too wise:If you can dream &#8211; and not make dreams your master; If you can think &#8211; and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you&#8217;ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build &#8216;em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: &#8216;Hold on!&#8217; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, &#8216; Or walk with Kings &#8211; nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds&#8217; worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that&#8217;s in it, And &#8211; which is more &#8211; you&#8217;ll be a Man, my son!]]></description>
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