I have learned a lot from my half-blind acupuncturist, Pong Neri. Take for example my unhealthy reaction to the three-week long drilling and hammering in the unit below our condo. It has taxed my patience. My acupuncturist pointed out that I may have depleted the energy of my thyroid gland as well as my liver, also my kidneys.

According to Barbara Eden in her ” Energy Medicine”, in Japan “it is recognized that blind people often develop an enhanced attunement for energy. They are encouraged to study acupuncture because they make some of the finest practitioner.”

My sister in the States told me I am very lucky to avail of the services of an acupuncturist at a relatively inexpensive rate. She had to stop her treatment after a year although she felt she still needed it because of the high cost and it is not included in their health insurance.

Back to my noise problem. I tried getting help from my Ho’oponopono practice. I  surrendered to divinity what  I could not fix. I tried to contain the noise with the help of my husband who asked the building engineer to impose the rules and to insist the repair job be done within working hours.

I used Esther Hick’s guidance on focusing on what I want and not on what I didn’t like. Sadly I know my thoughts more often than not focused  on my irritation over the noise.

I applied the urban shaman’s instruction not to absolve the creators of the noise: “Whatever they did come from their own beliefs, attitude and expectations and to whatever degree they made conscious choices to do harm they are subject to the laws of society.”

“It is important to realize your part in the event so that you can change the factors in yourself that helped bring it about. If the power was in you to create it, then the power is in you to change it”

According to Michael Tamura: “The school of life is one of experience and distilling what we learn from it into wisdom… what is truly important in a soul’s education  is not what we are born into – our heredity, gender, environment, religion or socioeconomic status – or what happens to us in life.”

“It is in how we choose to respond to whatever happens in our life, in whatever condition we find ourselves that we gain our immortal wisdom and everlasting freedom and reveal the true worth of our soul.”

Lately my challenges come from such mundane issues as technology. I suspect this comes from my ingrained belief
that since I am already 70 years old approaching 71 I should no longer learn new things. But sending e-mails is not a new skill for me! Yet last week I had to retype my essay because my web creator failed to get what I sent. I thought I got Yahoo’s confirmation that the mail had been sent. Then I checked. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was no record that I had sent the essay!

Another incident. I tried as many as five times to share a video with a Facebook friend> Each time I would Get “You have to provide a recipient.” although I had typed the name. I even checked the spelling. I gave up and wondered what universal law was spooking me.

Next morning with the first attempt to send the same video I could not send the night before, was right away sent. The lesson is for me to check my thoughts. I think several of my favorite authors will tell me that challenges will be repeated till I learn the lesson.

I believe I am and will never be too old to learn.

Dr Cherie Carter Scott… believes that we will be presented with lessons that are custom-designed for us and designed to teach us what we need to learn next.

According to Michael Tamura: “The school of life is one of experience and distilling what we learn from it into wisdom… what is truly important in a soul’s education  is not what we are born into – our heredity, gender, environment, religion or socioeconomic status – or what happens to us in life.”

“It is in how we choose to respond to whatever happens in our life, in whatever condition we find ourselves that we gain our immortal wisdom and everlasting freedom and reveal the true worth of our soul.”

Lately my challenges come from such mundane issues as technology. I suspect this comes from my ingrained belief
that since I am already 70 years old approaching 71 I should no longer learn new things. But sending e-mails is not a new skill for me! Yet last week I had to retype my essay because my web creator failed to get what I sent. I thought I got Yahoo’s confirmation that the mail had been sent. Then I checked. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was no record that I had sent the essay!

Another incident. I tried as many as five times to share a video with a Facebook friend> Each time I would Get “You have to provide a recipient.” although I had typed the name. I even checked the spelling. I gave up and wondered what universal law was spooking me.

Next morning with the first attempt to send the same video I could not send the night before, was right away sent. The lesson is for me to check my thoughts. I think several of my favorite authors will tell me that challenges will be repeated till I learn the lesson.

I believe I am and will never be too old to learn.

Dr Cherie Carter Scott… believes that we will be presented with lessons that are custom-designed for us and designed to teach us what we need to learn next.

According to Dr Christine Page; ” If God is omnipotent then the obvious place to start to explore its presence and to see its reflection is within our own core and not within the mindset of others.” I would like to restate that as: “Since God is omnipotent…”

“You Are the Answer” emboldens me by: “The divine law of asking and receiving cuts out all the middle men>” No offense to my Church that teaches that reaching God is done better through mediators more worthy than I am.

Dooley’s encouragement states: “It’s been even trickier because our entire planetary culture so far, has conditioned us to look outside of ourselves for direction, meaning and proper behavior.”
“You are the Answer” explains: “each one of us has a unique relationship with God and this relationship sets the basis for our spiritual growth.”
“The measure of our evolvement is not in what happens in our lives but in how we respond to all that happens.”

Before the Butterfly Can Fly

Although I’m almost 71 years of age, I still seek external permission to think independently. This is the result of social conditioning.I claim permission from Rabbi Darfour: ” Increasingly, I am persuaded that the beginning of faith ought to be inquiry, doubt, and disbelief.”

“Faith is not a fixed phenomenon, not a body of answers, so much as it is a process, a constant incorporation of new knowledge and new wisdom from different sources.” (2002)

Dooley argues against struggle even martyrdom; this appeals to me: “”Blood, sweat and tears aren’t what it takes to create real change. Instead its your imagination, beliefs, and expectations that draw you into action, circumstances and coincidences that make dream manifestation inevitable.

Radically “Life Is a Gift” asserts: “Freedom means loving yourself enough to be true to yourself and trust your emotional guidance. It means not giving in to what is socially expected or what the inner voices of fear exhort you to do nor feelings bound by past choices that are no longer serving you. It means making choices that express more of who you are. It means feeling your way into the flow. It means having faith in a loving cosmos.”

The context of my musings is Dr Christine Page’s : “During this time of the great shift, there will be increasing distortion of the hologram as individuals reconnect to their own divine consciousness and choose not to follow a collective truth unless it resonates with their soul.”

May I point out that Dr Page is the author of ” 2012 and the Galactic Center”. May I end with questions. Granted that our human nature is tainted with original sin, weren’t we saved by Jesus Christ? Didn’t our Baptism give us a clean, new slate? Why then does our Church not joyfully exhort us to live productive lives instead of forever hounding us with guilt?

” When we are in resistance, we give our power away to the very object of our resistance” An example in my life is my struggle to clean my Facebook news feeds of obnoxious posts from Fast and Furious. For more than a week, I politely requested the Facebook Admin to free my news feeds of such posts because they were crowding off my favorite posts from :pixels, Whisper of the Heart, Inspiration Garden, Creative pictures, Beautiful Garden etc. But Facebook posted even more!

Then my husband told me to simply ignore the posts. I felt better; but Facebook persisted. I am consoled by a line from “You Are the Answer.”:  “It is not God who kicks us out of his grace; it is we who drop out of the oneness, abundance and flow of life when we resist anything.”

Esther Hicks has this to say: “… you just set the tone, where you are by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your tone in a very clear, deliberate way anything that doesn’t match it gravitates out of your experience, and any that does match gravitates into your experience. “