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Welcome
to the "Riding the Wave - The Wave Riders™ "
Newsletter. http://www.thewaveriders.com
Wave Riders seek to do more,
achieve more and become more often seeking happiness outside
ourselves and our current "drab" lives. The happiness
that we seek often exists in our staying still and fully being
where we are and it is the "imbalance" and exhaustion
that makes us want "to run" or to be elsewhere.
The quote this month reminds us that we are valuable just
for being alive and to enjoy what we HAVE today and what we
ARE today. Being a "Wave Rider" doesn't come without
some difficulties, but it also comes with some gifts. These
gifts push us to want more and often lead us to burn out.
Overachieving is a goal pushed
from past generations - no one will pay your bills or bring
back the love when you burn out. Protect your life force and
pace your adrenaline flow. The results are always the same
- use too much of that adrenaline energy, eventually create
an almost allergic reaction within yourself to the adrenaline,
and you will suffer depression and bipolar mood swings. The
rules don't change. The gift is the ability and the price
for not using it correctly: is Mental, Physical, Emotional,
Financial and Relationship Turmoil.
The drug of Adrenaline tells
us that we can handle it but true "Creativity in Balance"
comes when we can override the message from the adrenaline
high and learn to "still the pace of the adrenaline flow"
and enjoy "this moment in time".
By being a recluse
I am able to create.
Creating produces success.
Success encourages adrenaline.
Adrenaline begs for more.
Shaking highs begin.
Burnout is inevitable.
But if I can
breath-down the rush of adrenaline and if I can balance the
activity with rest then ...
There is less
need to be a recluse
There is no need to run
There is peace
There is a calming high that flows through the body
There is consistent creative production.
Indigo Irwin Kennedy
TheWaveRiders.com
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Our
Minds Are Painting Their Own Picture.
by Indigo Irwin Kennedy
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I crawled out of bed, still
tired and feeling a little pressured to get things together
for a class that I was teaching at the local college. It was
early in the morning and I was still rubbing my eyes that
decided not to wake up with me and as I walked barefoot into
the kitchen and stepped right into a very cold wet substance.
I also have two dogs so I was not thinking this was going
to be very good at all.
I turned on the light to see
that the tap on my large 5 gal bottled water dispenser had
leaked through the night and at least 3 gallons of lovely
filtered water was gushing through my toes. I could see that
the faucet was still leaking and I rushed to empty the overflowing
catch basin and grab something that could hold all that water.
I knew I had a portable water container that would fit the
2 gallons of the container water that remained in the bottle,
but unfortunately I had left the container in my trailer -
30 feet from the house. It was a cold and icy morning and
the decision was made not to trudge out the door and get it.
I threw open the cupboards and
started pulling out glasses of all sizes. Each glass quickly
filled and splashed as I placed them on the shelf beside the
water cooler until I could move them to the fridge. Not wanting
to waste the last of the "drinking water" in the
house I kept trying to save the water rather than poor it
down the drain. I kept thinking to myself how much easier
this would be if I had my little container from the trailer.
I continued filling glasses while sliding through the newspapers
that I had thrown on the floor to soak up the water which
were now sopping wet and acting like greased linoleum.
My house began to look like
I was ready to play a session of musical glasses when finally,
I stepped back and sighed. My glass cupboard was empty and
my fridge was filled and my counter space covered with water
glasses. Then, as my head looked up from the mess on the floor
to scan the vista in front of me - right there, in directly
before me, beside the small corner of the shelf that I had
used to temporarily place my full glasses - was the container
that I did not want to go out to get from the trailer!
I had believed so firmly that
the large water jug was not where I needed it to be that I
"made myself" not see it!
I had believed completely that
it was not in the house. I was astonished how I could miss
it until now and I shook my head.
As I observed the situation,
I realized that;
- I could not see it until
I stepped back calmly from the situation.
- I could not see it because
my mind in the state of panic decided to stick to what it
believed and not the actually reality that stared back at
me.
- There was a great deal of
clutter around the area and that clutter was not allowing
my mind to see clearly what was in front of me.
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Here is
a picture so that you can share in my personal embarrassment
.
You can see how odd it is that I could not see the container
that was right in front of me. Perhaps the biggest lesson
is here is to
"wake up before you start a task!"
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The house was not dark and
yes, I was not awake but as I pondered the silliness of the
situation, I realized that it was much more than just a silly
event.
My life had become full of little
things that clutter my home and my thoughts. I wondered, what
was my mind currently hiding from me just because it believed
it was not there? What was I looking for that I could not
find? Was it already in front of me? Maybe we are seeking
happiness, opportunity or a mate and maybe it is already there
and we are simply not seeing the whole picture. I have heard
the saying “step back and look at what you already have” before
but I did not see the possibility and the extent that the
brain can fool us so vividly until that morning. What I thought
I did not have was there and I was unwilling to consider any
other possibility other than my belief that I “lacked what
I needed”.
A second message …what I thought
was a bad way to start a morning was in a gift of clarity
disguised as water on my floor. We can read many books telling
us to “step back” or “clear the clutter” or “what you want
is right in front of you” but there is nothing like a little
clearly illustrated philosophy in our daily life activity
to really help us understand the meaning of what we read.
There was another message in
this event as well – The entire time that I was so completely
focussed on the negative - I could not see the easy solution
in front of me. What a wonderful morning of learning. I hope
that you will take a few minutes today to step back a little
from the tasks you do and see, for yourself, what you are
not really seeing and observe the gift of a new lesson in
your everyday life.
Be good to yourself
Indigo
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for more articles coming in The Wave Riders newsletters.
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