Hello
All,
Please RSVP if you will be joining us for our Fuzzy Photons play groups of heart space on Tuesday evening 7-9pm or ME play group Thursday afternoon 1-3pm. Any local to the Portland/Vancouver area is welcome.
In some societies people are living longer. But
they are not always at their best as they age. Technologies can keep us alive,
but not always present mentally. Daily life is full of considerations and
stress. We are building Morphic fields full of declining abilities and loss of
powers of reasoning. We are now old enough to forget. Our ability to feel and reason
are gifts of being. We can take them for granted. We can be
good at putting off till tomorrow and longer preventative measures that could
insure against poor tomorrows. And then sometimes you do all the right things
and stuff still happens. What we all need to be in is a state of
appreciation for the wonder that we each are right now.
I have been in San Diego for several days. My
husband and I have been dealing with my dad and brother and levels of cognitive
abilities and dementia. Been noticing how information can flow but not connect.
The heart can be willing, the head can be willing and yet connection is lost. It
can be so between my dad, his body and mind, my brother as caregiver and his
issues or the medical system of doctor and staff, staff and more staff, staff
between agencies that are all looking to work together. Departments filled with
people sympathizing, empathizing but no power ultimately flowing to conclusion.
Power that just disappears. Sort of like dementia in certain ways.
Dad has been losing his memory, mostly short
term but some long term. It can be about the simplest things. What stands out to
me is when I watched and observed my dad at age 91 dealing with a variety of
Solitaire, a card game. You might not like the game much or you might enjoy it.
What you might not notice though are all the steps in cognitive behavior it
requires to play the game. How many piles of cards, how many cards in each pile
and when to turn them face over, piles of cards that are about black and red
alternating in each pile and in placed in descending order. Then the row of
suits in red or black in ascending order. And you have your turnover deck of
every three cards at a time you rotate through playing. You have to be able to
notice each pile in reference to what is showing. You have to be sure to turn
over only the cards facing up and not any others as you move them around from
pile to pile. You can only move certain cards at certain times into forming new
piles. And much more. Each is an act separate from the other, in a sequence and
then perhaps no sequence. Any one or more thought can fail to connect. Then
sometimes connecting on and then off in the next minute.
I like Solitaire and used to be quite focused on
results and time and wins and loses. I used to win a lot and quite
psychic at the game. Playing with my dad the last couple of years it has become
more about the process and not about the winning. We don’t win as much now. We
share the experience and that is the win to me. it brings me peace to sit with
him at his level and let it be okay. I am better now at letting go of the mind
that used to be present and to be okay with the one now present.
Awareness, appreciation and patience were
experienced. In my world, I guess most things work well. Not so in my
brother or father’s realities of life. I observed the intersection of those
realities a lot. I noticed where their issues could be mine and were not and
where they might be in the future. I get to decide how I want to relate to
these patterns. How much energy to feed into thinking certain ways about things.
I was able to successfully challenge the norm at different times and other’s
expectations and sometimes not. For we co-create always. Such is life.
Consciousness is always present and presenting opportunities to challenge
itself. Detachment from any kind of expectation is helpful when the expectation
is limiting. It is so easy to buy into someone else’s reality. You have to catch
yourself if it is not your reality or one you want to hold as the only
truth.
People can get better. People can get worse. It
is not up to me. But if I notice places that invite me to be aware, perhaps, if
wanted, things can change in some way, beyond the expected.
Take time to drop in and notice what in your
world catches your eye. Allow it to break it down into all the thoughts that
have to happen to have a conclusion. Notice where something might be different
or could allow for a different outcome. There are only patterns. Play. Enjoy.
Appreciate.
Janet
Janet Barrett
Metaphorically Speaking - Intuitive Energy Release
