being porous
I participated in a difficult budget meeting yesterday morning, which was fine. But the inside of my head sounded like this: blah blah blah end of the middle class blah blah blah cuts to base budgets blah blah blah guess I’ll probably die alone in a garbage pit.
Which gave me a chance to practice this advice from Eckart Tolle’s The Power of Now:
“Feel yourself becoming transparent…without the solidity of a material body. Now allow the (disturbance), or whatever causes a negative reaction, to pass right through you. It is no longer hitting a solid “wall” inside you…Instead of having a wall of resistance inside you that gets constantly and painfully hit by things that “should not be happening”, let everything pass through you.
Including, and especially, my own thoughts.
-Katy
February 20th, 2010 at 8:16 am
Thank you!! I’m grateful for the reminder. And the photograph is perfect.
March 9th, 2010 at 6:46 am
[...] So I’m keeping a food diary detailing each thing I eat, and what symptoms it evokes, hour by hour by hour by hour. Trying to track down leaky gut syndrome is an ANTI-gratitude exercise. (Incidentally, isn’t that the worst syndrome name EVER? I prefer to believe “I’m so sensitive, even my intestines are porous!”) [...]