New Directions

Many wonderful things on the horizon.

Will the card parallel the nicer interference?

A Reading Challenge!

Well, here's something more productive!

I've decided to take part in the Off the Shelf Reading Challenge,  I'm choosing the "Making a Dent" level, (I'm feeling ambitious!) and hopefully, I'll do pretty good in getting stuff off my to-read list.

Meditation and Psychic Healing

I was at the New Living Expo last year, and got a reading from some folks at Psychic Horizons (students in their program--a good reading), and I saw them give a talk, and they were one of the better presentations I felt.

When I either get a new job or start making more money, I will be taking a class in this program. They seem like they take a really no-nonsense approach.

Anywho, I'm checking out their website, and they have some free introductory videos, and I'm watching them, and I notice that people in the class are talking about the feelings that they have in their bodies during the meditation.

I also noticed myself some pain-ish kind of feelings in my head during the meditation. Anyone who meditates knows that when you do it, you are often distracted by feelings in your body, and in a way, this is your body tuning in to itself.

Listening to the woman in this video, I'm realizing that's the beginnings of psychic healing (of your own self anyway, and once you get good at doing it for yourself, being able to help others probably soon follows) because if you can feel it, that is part of knowing how to access it to change it.

Blog Test

This is a test of my blog using Windows Live Writer.  I’m hoping to do more blogging soon!

Maria Shriver?

The "Let them eat cake while I disregard the cell phone while driving rule" first lady?

I would *never* vote for *anyone* who has a "rules for thee but not for me" lifestyle.

I don't care if she's a Kennedy, she's an SUV driving, head-in-the-clouds-I-don't-have-to-think-about-anything-but-myself rich bitch.

in reference to: Calitics:: CA-Gov: Will There Be Another Candidate? (view on Google Sidewiki)

Environmental leadership with some teeth to it...

I remember when President Carter installed solar panels on the White House, and applauded the action as a forward-thinking strategy.

I also remember taking notice when one of the first things Ronald Reagan did when he got into office was take those panels down. I remember thinking it was a sign that we were in trouble.

in reference to: Al's Journal : Leading by example (view on Google Sidewiki)

Fight with your cubicle job! Take a blowtorch to money! Put your bills through a shredder! WTF???

Young Phallon's in the fertilizer again. I tried to post this as a reply on the Steve Pavlina message board. In response to this blog post. I registered to be on the message board, but it didn't seem to want my thread entry--I think some of those boards filter out posts that are less than glowing edorsements of a blogger's wisdom.

Um, I haven't read any of Steve's blog in a while, and this latest entry tells me why.

It just seems to me that when there are people out there struggling, (I know of people that sell plasma to make enough to cover the rent; I myself have a McJob, but it's not enough to actually *live* on) that it's a very *weird* idea to put out there that *cubicles* are actually something that people should have a problem with, that wanting to be able to pay rent is some kind of a problem.

For people like me, a cubicle job would actually be a great step up--it would be like having your own mini-office! Oftentimes, these cube jobs pay an amount that *actually approaches* enough money to live on, maybe not "well" , where you can afford to "follow your dreams", and only work when you want to, but being homeless or having no choice about where you live kinda sucks, so working at a slightly boring place for a while is not a bad trade off, in my estimation.

You can make up for these things with a good work/life balance, which you can generally find, because usually cube jobs have a regular, unchanging schedule, around which one can put regular fun and personally enriching stuff into their lives, because they can usually predict when they will need to be at work, etc.

Also, this kind of smacks of being a little prejudicial against clerical workers--apparently they have no inner vision, no drive to do something "better" with their lives.

Also, the fact that one person read this entry and got the idea to leave school because of it, kind of points up the inherent silliness of the idea that we must always be ecstatically happy about everything we do in life.

I don't mean any disrespect, but I just find it really hard to swallow that wanting to have security about how you will pay your bills (You can be sure that if you sent someone you owed money to a piece of paper with the words, "What is a bill? It’s a few pieces of paper at most." printed on it, they might take issue with you) translates into giving your power away.

I don't think this line of thinking makes me a complainer, either. I'm extremely happy that I have a roof over my head, even if it's not mine, I'm very happy that I don't have to sell plasma to pay for a tiny apartment. I have hopeful visions that someday I *will* be a little further along in my professional progress, even if it means working in a cubicle!

I just couldn't help thinking that this blog post was a little silly, and kind of a slap in the face towards people who are really struggling.