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veleda

Transitions & Contemplations

Apr 18, 2010 09:47

I've been quiet on LJ the last week. As some of you know, I sprained my ankle and knee doing paratheater last Friday.. I' took a few days off work and rested and contemplated.. Talked to some wise friends, spent a lot of time simply being WITH myself in solidarity. Time in deep contemplation of Will and Limitation. I may be coming to a some ( Read more... )

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alobar April 18 2010, 19:55:32 UTC

> I either have to give up something or become content
> with a longer slower path to the accomplishment of the things I am doing.

If you nurture health and body strength/agility you will remain active much later in life, and probably live longer as well. So there is less need to be impatient about getting all the long-term goals completed as quickly as possible.

Heart risks arising from being a type A personality is currently out of favor with medical professionals,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_and_Type_B_personality_theory
but I have known several people who died from heart failure before age 65 who were all type A personality.

veleda April 20 2010, 17:16:59 UTC

I've been working on chinking away at my type A tendencies. really ~!

I am so much better than we first met! I sleep now!

alobar April 20 2010, 18:45:05 UTC

> I sleep now!

Glad to hear it! I hate it when friends die because they did not take care of themselves.

Best of good fortune on your journey.

laughingstone April 19 2010, 04:36:42 UTC

Hey girl. I'm glad to see you approaching your goals with more realism. I feel like I've been better able to do this in my own life lately ever since L. suggested I give myself permission to +half-ass it" at work to save me undue anxiety until I can find a better job.

This approach has already been helping me. When I half-ass it, I usually end up accomplishing the same amount I would otherwise, but being way less stressed.

I think the biggest impact is that I'm also caring less of what others think of me if I accomplish less. This is a huge release.

veleda April 20 2010, 17:17:33 UTC

ya less stress and equal productivity. I could use that. I think I way less efficient than I should be at about everything.

sandrak April 19 2010, 05:05:17 UTC

Wow. That's different logic than I'm used to hearing from you. I kinda think that you're just so phenomenally brilliant and charming and capable-so much more than the average person-that you just don't have much experience in not being able to do _everything_ and _anything_ that you set your mind to!

And for some reason that makes no logical sense to me, you seem to need to continually prove to yourself what all who love you already know-that you _are_ all those things already!

I like the idea of your being as loving and forgiving of your humanness as we (or at least me) are of your humanness. <3

veleda April 20 2010, 17:19:14 UTC

It's less of needing to prove these things to others..that nots really my motivation.

I just have a perpetual feeling of not performing at my maximum..not being my best..

I'm like Eliza.. I want to be my best.

It has no relationship with others really.

vega_33 April 21 2010, 05:41:05 UTC

I don't think theres anything wrong with a longer, slower path... its really a matter of taste. I don't know if you ever listened to any of the C-Realm or Black Light in the Attic podcasts, but I once heard Neil Kramer speak on spirituality regarding what he called the "psychedelic jetpack" concept, which has application in my mind to things other than consciousness expansion. The idea basically takes the analogy of trying to get to the topic of a mountain... we might call it Mons Abiegnis :P and one can take multiple modes of transportation to get there. A jetpack or helicopter is the most direct, but one misses the scenery and interesting detours along the way that might increase ones knowledge about the mountain if one, say for example, walked up a path around its outside ( ... )