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Thursday, September 25, 2014

It's All About Me: Awareness Verse




Sharing Some Verses of When We Attended a Workshop

It's All About Me

Words I Speak
Talk About Who I Am
The Sound of My Voice
I Hear Silence and Noise

Resonating and experiencing me 
I Come Face to Face with Myself
Self-forgiving The Charge
We Put Into Words 


Releasing The Self-Imposed Limits
I Expand and Redefine Words
Stretching The Boundary
I Embrace Me

Exposing and Forgiving 
I create from nothingness
As the Creator and Created 
I See Its All About Me





The Earth Is My Plate: Awareness Verse






We attended a Mindfulness Workshop at a Center here in Dallas and we were asked to write verses. 

To The Readers, I am Sharing These Verses I Wrote ,


The Earth Is My Plate

Eating from the earth,
I walk with the plants
that populate the land

Walking with the animals
Roaming in the fields
Realizing they sacrifice their lives 

In gratitude I bow 
For the nourishment they provide

Monday, October 1, 2012

Solution Blueprint Update: Assignments: Realizations: 12th Day: Day 173: SF Oct 1 2012




 
                 


 

SOLUTION BLUEPRINT

Related Blogs I Have Done :
21 Days Breathing Blogs
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I started doing a solution blueprint for the 'late or procrastination' character - for me to have a look at what i am doing in separating myself from the task at hand and time itself - and instead go within my mind and do other tasks that i desire to do creating a positive out of an initial negative - when i am bored and sleepy.

In my solution blueprint - where i jot down daily what i was doing on a daily basis, i found out that the mind gets in the way of me applying myself practically in doing my DIP assignments daily - where i would automatically think about things i have to do and stand up and do it - leaving my assignment unfinished .What i found is working is really applying me in the physical writing and doing my assignment and not giving in to the mind, so i am doing my assignment daily.

I started initially by starting my day doing my assignment but then there's a time when there were other tasks that needs to be done early on the day - so then i started doing these tasks  instead of my assignment and pushed my doing my assignment later in the day - whenever i have time - but making sure i do it - but i forget if i have done it or not. So within this, there is the 'unknowing' character - as i play this one when i try to get out of taking self-responsibility.

I asked myself a question - did i do my assignment today? and the answer is - I am sure i did but i cannot remember when, and then i go into a sense of being overwhelmed. So, here i can see that i am being overwhelmed when i am not here as breath doing my assignment. This is clearly me as the mind character - the 'overwhelmed' character.

I have looked at this character - but i have not blogged about it.

I realised it is not just doing the assignment but BEING HERE AS BREATH WHEN DOING IT.

These are points i will direct in blogs to come:

*Redefine the Word Time
*Blog about Unkowing and my experience as the mind character within that and correct myself  and birth me as the real character as the breath in every moment here
*Blog about being overwhelmed and my experience as the mind character within that and correct myself and birth me as the real character as the breath in every moment here.
*Redefine The Word Assignment
*Look at how i charged the word 'here'

So, i am also writing down the task that i will do for the day and instead of me writing a to do list or not writing one - which i tried before, i am writing down the amount of time i allocate for each task that i do daily - but i will not hold myself to the time i scheduled daily and will not restrict me to do other tasks when i am finished with the task..

Here is my self-forgiveness and self-commitment for this blog :

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to procrastinate - and define myself within the 'procrastination' character  - where i stop what i am doing - like making my assignment - when i think of something that i have not finished to do that i need to do - where i am hoping that in doing that task it will give me a positive experience - with the thought that i actually finished something- leaving the task i have to do unfinished and sometimes forgotten -when i come back to the task that i was doing - not realising that this character i  have given life to for a long time - and so i am directing myself to stop and physically assist myself to do it. Clearly, this is me as the mind, directing me to do any task that i think about, react, imagine etc.

I commit myself to when and as i see myself procrastinating and defining myself within the 'procrastination' character - where i become bored and sleepy when i do not clearly understand what is being conveyed in the assignment - I ask myself what word i do not understand and assist myself to be patient with me to really assist me to look up the meaning of the word or symbols or numbers  and redefine it to something i can live as my expression - based on who i am as equal to all parts of life.

I commit myself to put the assignment  within and as myself and see who am i within this assignment - what am i in doing this assignment and why am i doing what i am doing in making my assignment

I commit myself to when and as i feel sleepy and bored and having a mental blank -when i am making my assignment  i stop - i breathe and say, 'I am here'. I clap 2x to wake myself up and stand up and splash water on my face  or take a shower - whichever is practical to wake me up - then assist myself to get back in front of the computer and finish what i am doing.

I realise that when i am not doing my assignment or when i procrastinate - i think about those unfinished tasks during the week and become overwhelmed when thoughts come up about doing and finishing the task - so i commit myself to assist myself to be intimate with me as who i am as breath here - as the physical sensation of what i do - as the movement of my physical body - as the presence of who i really am - and to instead of entertaining thoughts, backchats, reactions, pictures, sounds, or desiring to finish an unfinished task in the past - to tell myself to stop - and tell myself that i will put that in my list of tasks to finish - allocate time to do it  - and finish what i am doing in that moment - and if there is a 'call of nature' that i really need to do something to assist the body or the physical existence, i tell myself to stop and tell myself to start another task - and to slow myself down and not be caught up in that - where whatever i see i connect to something that i have not done - to not do that - to instead finish that part of the assignment i am working on according to the time i allocated for that task - breath by breath.

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to fear being controlled when doing an assignment - because i do not like sitting and doing the same thing for a long time and so desires freedom by doing something else - where i have thoughts of getting some nuts/fruits, sweeping the floor, folding the clothes, preparing food etc. - and entertain me as the mind - and imagine that i will feel good by getting up of the chair for a minute - creating an alternate reality within/as my mind where i imagine and think about things i can do to make me happy separating me from the task at hand  - and time - desiring to get up and do something else - justifying it by saying 'i can do my assignment later after i feel better' which is from fear of control - not realising this is me as the mind character that i am giving life to and not who i really am as the real character - equal to the task at hand and the accumulation of my breaths here as time.

I commit myself to stop the fear of being controlled when doing my assignment - and stop the memories as pictures, desires etc. - within and as myself and let go of the the separation within my mind where the task at hand becomes a negative experience and desiring  another activity or task for a positive energy experience and assist myself to bring the task within and as myself - and express me within the task and whatever i create within that practical movement breath by breath as freedom as who i am here in my expression.


I Had A look At The Things I Have To Do Daily and In The Next Blogs I Will Come Up With The List of Things I Have To Do Daily, as My Daily tasks!
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Sunday, September 30, 2012

My Story: His Proposal and My Dating Experience:SF3 Day 172: Prove That You Love Me Part 4 : WAIT

 
http://junejourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/wait-prove-that-you-love-me-day-169-sf.html
This is a continuation of the Blog
 In this blog i will continue the self-forgiveness for different characters i played out in the mind's narrative in the previous blog. I am stretching this blog as i saw some characters that i played out that i missed while i was writing the previous blog, so here i will expand on my thoughts and backchats starting with the event when DSS proposed and the sexual experiences i had which is key in me looking at the patterns that i play out - to stop and birth myself here as life.

Stopping the movie that i created in my head about who i am in sex and relationships and what and why i am in sex and relationships to create a real relationship with myself and another as self - in an agreement.

The Proposal:

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 

'there he is - i knew it - we'll meet again - and he will be my boyfriend - as the future projection, belief and manifesting a belief - i know' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 
'he's still handsome as he used to be - i so love this guy - i can see his plus points and negative points but his plus points outweigh the negative ones - heart racing -  as the living the past - desire to be in a relationship with someone - happiness' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the
'he's inviting me to attend his father's birthday celebration -  i am now part of the family now that i have accepted his proposal - when he said 'i will lay my cards on the table, i like you' and asking me 'what about you? and me saying 'yes' - as the acceptance of proposal - relationship is happiness' character
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I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'his younger brother is present in that celebration - and he also courted me in high school - he might be jealous - as the doubt - jealous' character


- i did not accept both of their proposal when we were in high school


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 
'i liked his brother but i said no to him when he cornered me and asked me before entering my grandmother's house - asking me if i liked him as he wrote me letters that he liked me before  - but that's because i am scared , my father said i should not have a boyfriend then - and so i also said no to his brother but i lied - i really liked his brother then - as the suppression - inferior - guilt' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I liked his brother because he was dark skinned, reserved like my dad - but not too intelligent- like my mom - judgment of form, comparison - competition' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I also liked DSS as he is light skinned almost white, and handsome - there's a look of naughtiness in his face combined with a boyish look- as the judgment of form, comparison - competition' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'what i don't like about DSS is that he get's angry when slightly provoked - by others but he never gets angry to me - and i am thinking i can tame his anger by my patience  - as the marrying someone who is angry so i can transcend my fear of anger - belief, manifestation of belief - manipulation' character


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Bringing a memory back here of when i was young, an event that happened in the kitchen as i was looking - that relates to :

Anger

Memory of VS angry with my mom and  pulling my mom's hair: 

I forgive myself thati have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'i saw VS pulling the hair of my mom -  i cannot do anything because i am a child - and i am in the family and VS also takes care of me -it 's okay to be angry when you are being taken cared of by that person - as the fear of anger and accepting and allowing abuse in the family'  character

Link
http://junejourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/08/vs-pulling-moms-hair-who-am-i-i-am-i.html

 Memory of Anger in another incident when i had a relationship with RD:

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'he's jealous of me - he's angry - he must love me so much because he gets upset by little things i do - he must be watching everything that i do - that takes time and patience - but i felt diminished when he pulled my hair and threw me on the bed - as the fear of anger, love is violence, self-diminishment,  jealous, victim' character

Note: i will write a blog about this in the coming blogs

Fear of an angry dog

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to fear an angry dog barking as i imagined the dog hurting me - where i fear my flesh being torn apart - where fear of death and fear of not existing activate - where i can feel my heart beating fast, my stomach churning and me holding my breath.  ===

Let's look again at what happened when we attended the birthday celebration of  DSS's dad - looking at his brother seated right next to me, let's call him DRS:

In the Birthday Celebration Event of his Father:


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'DRS is reserved and good looking but he doesn't have the naughty look of DSS and his intelligence  - but it's interesting to see if he's jealous or not - i can tell if he still loves me just by looking at his eyes and his body movement - as the hoping, i am special, i got 2 people who like me in one family - winning - competition - jealousy as love -happiness' character'



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Let's look at an event when i was young - where i threw myself in front of my mom when she was being approached by a man - preventing him to dance with her - thinking he will take her away from me - where i thought he wanted to dance with my mom in a public event sponsored by our municipality- knowing my dad was abroad i did not want him to dance with her :

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 
'I  don't wan't you to dance with my mom - she's mine- she belongs to my family only - i love her - jealousy is love' character
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 Looking at the birthday celebration of DSS's dad again where his brother is seated right next to me:

I forgive myself thati have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'i am seated next to RDS, his back is slightly turned against me - he's shy - he still have feelings for me - i wonder how he will feel now that i just started going out with his brother? He can be jealous - as the hoping, predicting the future - winning comes in bundles - i am special - happiness' character

Deciding to be in a relationship with DSS:

Dating
Sexual Experience


I forgive myself thati have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'he asked me to go out with him - i am excited - this is my first date - i wonder what happens in a date? Will he touch me? I hope he will so i can experience the passion of love making - as the questioning, curious, desire for pleasure, hoping' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I wonder what's it like to be kissed?It must be heart warming - i better brush my teeth - as the i want to be kissed passionately - i want to feel good and look good - as the attracting someone, desire for pleasure and to give pleasure, hoping' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I will put on perfume to smell nice - so when he smell me he would want to touch me and kiss me - as the desire for a relationship, attracting someone, desire for pleasure and sex' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I will put a nice dress on - this yellow dress with prints on it looks sexy and the button in front of the dress will make it easier for him to touch my breast - as the desire to be noticed and desired by the male, desire for pleasure and sex' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I will put on a little make - up, then he will see me as desirable and will want to touch me and have sex with me - as the desire to be liked, desire for pleasure , desire for sex, hoping' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'so that was a kiss - now i know how it is done -it feels good because its wet and warm inside his mouth and i can feel his breath on my face  - i am sure i will feel that 'kiss of passion' in the future - and  the thing is, i finally have him as my boyfriend so i am happy - as the hoping- winning, happiness' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'when he asked me to touch his 'jade stalk' inside the theater - i was surprised - finally i know how it feels like - it's hard - and then he touched my breast - that was a nice feeling to touch his hard jade stalk and him touching my breast at the same time - i want to have that feeling everyday - i want to marry this guy - we're meant to be together - as the excited, 'falling in love - attraction, satisfaction of desire for sex - relationship- hoping - marriage - happiness' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'he wants for  me to come and spend some time in his house - i want him to touch me more - i want to experience sex as i always wondered how they do it - i imagined it will be exciting and passionate - as the hoping, projection, desire for sex -happiness' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'i am in his bedroom, the door is shut, we can have sex - will he want to? i am shy to ask him - but i want to experience that feeling again - shy, hoping, hiding -desire for sex - happiness' character


   Jealousy:
I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I better call him everyday - and see if he is not doing what we're doing when we're together with another woman - phone - jealousy' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I better befriend all his family members so i can go to their house often and be welcome - as the i like to be liked and accepted - manipulation' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'her sister is  jealous of me - i can tell when i am in their house she comes closer to her brother and sometimes ask him to watch tv in the other room with her and sometimes spoon feeds him when there's some nice dessert she wants him to taste - as the judgment, inferior, comparison, jealousy' character



I commit myself to through writing, self-forgiveness and self-corrective application  stop playing out these characters 

I commit myself to when and as i see myself get jealous - i stop - i breathe. i realise that this is the alternate version of me trying to control the situation - believing that i can control my partner to act in a way that i like him to - within self-interest -  so to assist me to see my partner as me to look at what i am trying to control in my life and write about it and open the points and direct it - and put whatever i see in him back to myself.

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                            Continued on Part 3 - My Sexual Experiences with DSS
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  References:


Animals:
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 The 'Late' Character





This is a Continuation of this Blog

Friday, September 28, 2012

Wait: Prove That You Love Me Part 2 SF: Day 170 Characters Jealousy Blame Happiness



Animals:
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My 21 Days Breathing
Daily Blogs

This is a Continuation of this Blog


My 'Experience' Of The Word Wait
Stopping the Mind Narrative
Self-forgiveness

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'wait for me - you love me don't you? - if you do you'll be patient - i desire to be special and superior - because i feel normal and inferior -manipulation' character  


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the ''stand and wait for me while i beautify myself to entertain you - because you were so illusive in the past - making me suffer - and now that i got you - you have to suffer also - so we're even - competition in relationships- winning as happiness' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I am important - let him wait and suffer - while i entertain myself - as the blaming him for my suffering when we were in high school - as the blame' character 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 
'let him suffer - happiness' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the  'I do not like to wait because he might not come - as the shameful, inferior, doubting' character




I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the
'I will make him wait - as he made me wait when we were in high school - as i was attracted to him then - but he did not really pay that much attention to me at that time - as the vengeful, spiteful, blaming' character 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'I enjoy it when someone suffer and wait for me - as love is suffering and waiting - spiteful' character 


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'you have proven your love - you are patient - you are the kind that will die for me - you are my kind of a man - i love you - i want to marry you - please ask me now - i like to be married with you - happiness' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'love is doubt and manipulation - competing with another - playing the game to win - as the winning in competition desiring to be happy' character



I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'show me you are patient by waiting for me and prove you deserve my love - so i can bear your kids -and live happily ever after in a relationship - desiring to be happy' character
''show me you are patient by waiting for me and prove you deserve my love - so i can bear your kids - live ever after - relationship - eternal happiness' character 


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'if you become angry and spite me - i will spite you back - as the blaming, spiteful' character
A similar event that happened when i was a child:


 I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 

'i am scared to tell her - she will get upset as the suppression and fear of anger desiring to be happy' character 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 

 'i am angry and i am blaming you for making me angry because of what you did as the blame and spiteful -yet after  eating tasty food you made - my blame turned to love for you - entertainment as happiness' character




I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 
'you made me feel unimportant and inferior - so i am blaming you - blame' character 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 

'where are you going?  what are you doing? -i am  suspicious that you are hiding something - blaming you as the suspicious, jealous, blaming' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the  
'i will not say anything - just give me food and make me happy - to make me forget what you did - entertain me - food bribe happiness' character

As My Mom:


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'i am wandering and not taking responsibility for letting others in the family know where i am going - as the self - interest first, freedom seeking, i don't care ' character 


Let's look at my childhood - where i feel controlled when my dad tells me to ask permission before i go out and tell him where i am going :


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'ask permission before you go anywhere and tell me where you are going - i am your dad and you are my child - possessive - superior- controlling' character  - where i followed what he said and just stayed at the house and served him coffee - defining me within the 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'serving my dad coffee - i am a good child - suppression - inferior - i like to preserve peace - fear of anger and punishment - peace is happiness' character 



As My Mom:


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'you are procrastinating - do what you're told - finish the house - inferior trying to be superior - disgusted - desiring a nice house - controlling' character 


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 
'he's okay - he loves me - so let him be -being liked as justification to being self-dishonest - as the i like to be liked' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the
'desire to always agree with someone - to preserve peace - desiring happiness' character

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'fear of upsetting someone - suppression' character


As My Dad:
I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'ask permission before you go anywhere and tell me where you are going - i am your dad and you are just my child - possessive - superior - controlling' character


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within the 'making you coffee - inferior - pleasing dad - as the suppression, happiness' character

More Self-forgiveness for self-definition in the coming blogs

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Desire To Go To Picnics: Philippine Picnics Day 167 21 Days Breathing Day 2






Animals:
The Elephant
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My 21 Days Breathing
Daily Blogs
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This is a continuation of this blog

Me, The Elephant, Nature Rice, Banana Leaf, Jesus and Mahjong Part 1 




I am working on the first Fear here:

The Different Characters 
The Fears and Desires

FIRST FEAR : 'fear of a difficult life - desires to go to picnics to be happy' character 


'fear of being poor- desires to earn money and go to picnics  to be  happy' character
'fear of having no money to buy food for picnics so desires to have money to buy food for picnics to be happy' character
'fear of not having fun with family and friends - desires to go to picnics to have fun with family and friends ' character
'happy-go-lucky, does not want to work in an office so desires to be self-employed and earn money to go to picnics to be happy ' character
'desires to be self-employed  to get money for picnics to be happy' character


 



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'fear of being controlled with eating food using spoons and fork so desires to eat with hands to be happy' character
'fear of being controlled with eating food on plates so desires to eat food on a banana leaf to be happy' character
'fear of being bored with eating rice cooked in an aluminum pot so desires freedom in eating rice cooked in banana leaf to be happy' character
'fear of eating ordinary, easy to prepare food like fried fish so desires to eat special, difficult to prepare food like rellenong bangus to be happy' character
'fear of eating ordinary fried bangus or milkfish - so desires to eat special daing na bangus, or milkfish marinated in vinegar and garlic in picnics to be happy' character
'fear of being bored by staying in the house always so desires to go with family and friends for picnics to be happy' character

  

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Self-forgiveness and Self-commitment:


'Fear of a difficult life - desires to go to picnics to be happy' character 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to fear a difficult life - as i saw the maids in our country and the poor people struggle to get food on the table and get an education which gives them very little chance to survive - so instead of looking at this fear - i just desired to do something to make me forget this fear. 

When i walk back and i ask myself some questions

*what will happen if i will have a difficult life?
I  may not get food and shelter and die 

*what will happen if i do not have food and shelter and die?
I do not know 

I can see the fear of not knowing what will happen after death - this is my main fear which is really fear of not existing

I will use self-forgiveness and self-correction here -

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to define myself within  the 'fear of not knowing what will happen after death' - where because i do not know anything about it - i become uncertain about my life and perceive myself split into 2 - the living me and the one who can die any time -  and so fears death and within that  blame existence within spite and give up on myself and just desire that which will make me happy - to feel whole about myself. Obviously,  this is not what is best for all and not best for me because my fear is still within me and will be directing me to desire many things to make me happy - and most of the time be addicted to it. So i commit myself to when and as i see myself desiring something to make me happy - avoiding facing myself within fear - i stop - i breathe. I am assisting myself to accept and allow me to not participate in fear of death and see that i can stop the mind by not participating in my fear and within that see who i really am when i stop my mind - realizing that i am here - made from the same substance all are made of  and simply live as who i am - equal to all that exist.


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