Whoa, man. July has been an eventful month so far.
Our daughter had dental surgery at the beginning of July to remove an extra, miscellaneous tooth which was blocking her front adult tooth from emerging.
Needless to say, the girl who has troubles sleeping was extra aggravated for about three days after. She's all healed now and looking wonderful, though, so we're happy! Happy it's over and happy to move on safe and sound!
Our son cut his hair short! He's been growing it out since he turned thirteen and Oh. My. Word!
I was so excited to see his beautiful face and gorgoeous brown eyes. And what a man he has grown into. It was all hiding behind his hair! I never had a problem with his hair style previous, but when it all left his face, I was amazed. And I think he was too. His whole being shines now, and after the rocky start he had to this year, right now I am happy to report that he is in a wonderful place spiritually and emotionally and we're all feeling really great about that.
As for myself and my guy, we're doing pretty great as well! My husband has being working steady, but learning how to slow down and enjoy life, during the gorgeous island summer we are having. We went camping last weekend with Jason's parents and had a blast at the lake! I felt like I had taken two weeks off, I was so refreshed after, but I think getting away from my house helps me to feel relaxed more than anything!
As for me, I have been growing and learning and marvelling in it all. Last week I had two amazing counselling sessions which have seriously helped me to do some spiritual housecleaning. In fact, the day after my second session, I went home from work, exhausted for no reason, and slept for two hours. Then I got up, made dinner and slept again for about 9 hours. I felt amazing the next day, so rested, calm and peaceful. My thoughts were uplifting and positive, and since then I have been struck with so much creativity and inspiring ideas. It's as if I defrafmented the old noggin and am now fresh and ready for the universal downloads!
In addition, this week, I took it upon myself to disengage from Facebook. I stopped checking my newsfeed Wednesday and did not look again until Saturday evening. I am writing this post on Sunday afternoon and I have refrained again from looking at it today.
I posted a few items, but not from Facebook--from other apps connected to my account--and I did message with it, but I did not respond to comments & I only checked notifications from my email.
All of this actually sounds really ridiculous to me as I write it, but I admit, I was am somewhat a social media junkie and I have concluded that I can only take in so much of it. Facebook for me is the one that creates too much overwhelm, so for now I am staying away from my newsfeed. I have really come into understanding who I am, how I operate and what makes me feel anxious, and in order to block out energy that I can easily absorb, I am reducing intake of media.
It is a good feeling when you can recognize the neccessity to block some things out. Years ago I used to watch the The National on CBC, until eleven pm in my bedroom each night, but I had to quit doing that and take the tv out of our room (eventually cutitng off cable entirely) because I would be overwhelmed by the energy and emotion of the newscast. I would NEVER go back to watching the news. I can't say I will stay entirely away from Facebook forever, but I know that I am loving not looking at it right now. I really do not miss it.
I now see how easily the media we consume can become the way we think. It can form our opinion about the TRUTH and LIFE and if we are passively consuming the dark, negative, fear-mongering, esteem crushing ideals of popular culture and the (social) media, we begin to build resentment and fear deep in our minds. It is so easy to lose sight of how to be spiritually connected with such energy vampires lurking all around us.
I have many more thoughts on this and so much new blog content that has been coming through these past days! I have been scribbling notes frantically as all the thoughts tumbled out of my mind and will be trying my best to organize the notes into cohesive sentences so I can share with you more ramblings of my misfit mind.
Do you have thoughts or comments on the media thing? I would love to know how other people feel about this!
Have an awesome week!
I am glad you recognized you had a social media problem. There was s few of us that were worried about you and were already in the works organizing your intervention.
Now that you are well, I shall wish you luck and will go back to my facebook. The royal baby might have been born in the last 2 minutes and I might have missed it writing this ;)
Posted by: Renyen | 07/22/2013 at 07:33 AM