Today I Will Play!!!!!

I'm taking this opportunity while on Thanksgiving Break to download my camera - although I should be working solely on my thesis.........see?........guilt.........guilt's my thing.........

The thing my mother used on me while growing up, the thing both wives used on me when we were married, and the thing I use on myself at age 41.

Using guilt on ourselves or others doesn't mean we're bad. It's just "the thing" used on us while growing up which we in turn use as adults.

So guilt is "my thing" that I need to overcome....feeling guilty if I'm not doing what I "should be doing". I think a lot of us share that, and if we aren't paying attention, we'll continue the cycle with our own children.

Someone has to break the cycle. Why not you? Why not me? Our children have enough problems to solve without us putting burdens on them that we can carry and conquer ourselves.....

Anyway, I'm glad I took the time to empty my camera because I found these pics and this video.

I hope this post is still around for my grandchildren to see how wonderful their parents are, and as a reminder for my children to see how wonderful being carefree and childlike is.

A big thank you to my sister (the psychologist) who sent us these glasses. I wonder if she ever puts them on during one of her sessions? I don't think I would be able to resist doing it.

Hooray 4 Today!

DANCE

fast

and

s l o w ~
move with the flow


feel it in your body~
take it in your soul

wash your entire body with it~

caress your neck, shoulders and chest

down your stomach and past your hips~
dance and play until you are splashing it with your toes

raise your arms unafraid above your head~

let your head fall back and to the side

dance to the rhythm and move to the beat~
and sway from side to side


Surrender to the private ecstasy~
that you feel building up inside

Open up and let it take you completely~
Completely to the other side

**The first time I remember doing this since I was a small child (when we are natural and intuitive and FREE) was @ 10 years ago in the Grand Canyon, hiking all day and jumping off a cliff onto a small flat rock below.

I sat cross-legged and got ready to watch the fireworks show...........sunset in the Grand Canyon!

It was beautiful, sending electricity up and down my body as it's doing now just remembering it.

Listening to SEAL on my walkman, I slowly rose and stood in honor of a beautiful miracle happening before my eyes.

Overtaken by the colorful imagery, I rose my arms out to the side and burned the image in my mind.

My body began to turn in slow circles, in a sort of "dance". I didn't know what was happening but decided to "just go with it". I surrendered to what I was feeling and let myself dance on that little rock, to the music, to the moment.....to the midnight.

I'm told that in my entire lifetime I will only remember moments. Moments that made me feel happy and moments that made me feel sad.







I believe this moment.....made ME ~ and took me to the other side.