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This a personal experience i would like to share with you, growing up

was not the easiest thing for me my parent being in a religion that

if you had a different view point you would be disfellowshipped

which ment you couldnt talk to anyone you knew and even your

family wasnt supposed to talk to you until you came around and

viewd things the religions way of viewing it. My mother to as a

person would judge me and my sis very harshly and would

beleive others over us so we really felt like we were not worthy

of our own opinions and it was like listen but dont speak. Think

but only if it is in the standards of what you are learning in the

church. Although I have moved passed all of this you all know

how the old can creep back in and we all need reminders. So heres

my experience of something that happined last night.

I was feeling aches and pains in my stomach and had a fever I

ended up going to bed early like at 700pm. I had so much pain

it was like flu symptoms. I heard this light beating on a drum

noise. I saw what it was like one of those ancient instruments that

you hold in your hands and make a rolling motion which causes

the string that is attached to the top to move and hit the drums. Its

an ancient instrument used to keep rythim and bring peace to

thoughts. Then they appeared the monks they were all around me

healing and talking to me. One stood out he looked like the Dalih

Lamma with blue eyes. While he was talking to me my pain was

gone. He told me its ok to show emotion even anger, you are human, emotions are part of you. You must live your life the way

you live it, not like others. People think people just want to hear the

good experiences of life, but then, how do we learn what to do with

hard times if you dont share those times also? Not everyone is going

to agree with messages you share but, that does not matter. There

will be one person that will need to hear the message you have to

give. Speak your thought do not hold back your words, they need to

be heard like everyone else. you will net speak words that has never

beed heard before for we are one and all have been there. You are

worthy to speak how you feel, so speak! Peace to you.

Love lightwalker

What a great experience for you and what a great lesson for us all! I wonder if they were a team of guides, or brought in as a visitng teacher from your guides. What do you think?

Anger is something I've always had problems expressing, I usually harbor my feelings, then end up wanting to say snide remarks to the person down the line. grin.

I think feeling and letting go of anger is an art. Any tips?

Most of us need some learning in that area.--Especially those who end up taking their feelings out in a physical way.

nana

you might be on to something there about the visiting guide and

the team. All my life they have enjoyed playing different roles for

fun lesson learning ( and some not so fun lesson learning also heh)

This of course was fun and very informative and healing. I felt much

love and they kept bowing . I do have an asian guide who during the

years has instucted me on actient teachings.Ive always

been enthrawled about what the human body can do with disipline and

lots of meditaion. The art of dance is something i appreciate especially

something you can kind of make your own and be alittle more creative

with. It helps me with fear because Im busy with learning dance steps

and my mind is luued to the music and calmed. These are things that

help me, I think when you feel youve accomplished something on an

artistic level, and most important you have fun and absolutly love to do

it and feel renewed in a sense,, its like you are at a higher vibration and

so positive. This trains the mind in a way. Weird huh? But effective

I have suffered with anger for a long time also but, when I feel an

episode coming on, I know Im doing something that is natural, and

can usually detect what really made me mad and sometimes its not

nessarally what someone did or said but something that I had a fear

about what was associated with the situation mostly and not JUST

the person. What about you Nana what do you do? You feel to

me like you have it together! ((hugs))

Thanks for the compliment of having it together.

I keep on trying if nothing else LOL . Like is a journey and I'm always learning more. I do think in my middle age mind I have a bit more wisdom than I did before, but alot of that came from doing a lot of dumb things

I have a variety of guides too-(we all do) depending on what I am needing at the time. I just think that is so cool. I've met some but for the most part they remain behind the scenes while they try to get through to my block headedness. I have to thank them for their persisitance on my behalf.

Oh yes, You and your dancing are speaking to about something I use daily in my work. I work with people suffering from mental illness while they are in a crisis and acute stages to levels of managed recovery. We talk one on one and in groups to address the recovery model using tools and information that help people be their own advocates and managers in maintaining their personal recovery...and it works. There is isn't a cure but there are coping skills that can be used to attack those triggers that can bring on meltdowns before their life is completely interrupted. Some of those include using music, It lifts the soul vibration like you say...and brings joy-even when you are feeling at your worst. Some others are singing, poetry, journaling, exercise, meditations-spirituality - whatever gets your passions going.

About anger, if I take a few moments to give it some thought, I usually come up with the realization that it is the situation that is making me angry, and not so much the individual. Although

I run into some really ignorant people sometimes that I really just want to tell off. I'm usually successful in trying to use my words in an intelligent respectful way to try to get my point across--but not always.

Another thing I find is - and this is with family more often that not- something disturbing is happening within the family dynamics and I don't speak up and tell them how I feel. Then I end up being resentful later on. I have to work on this.

working with the mentally ill is some realhard work.

It really alows you to dig deep inside yourself also and want to be

a better person for the people you teach and yourself especially.

Its really enlightening to see how creative thought really helps in

this area . You seem very fulfilled in this and what a wonderful

feeling you have to be helping in this way. I think all of us can

heve meltdowns if we are not careful and we all need to know

our own triggers that cause these. What empowerment it is to

maintain your own recovery of sorts with this disease ( in

understanding there isnt a full on cure) but, coming to a conclusion

that you are taking part in managing this. wow so empowering

Thank you for sharing this with me it really made my day!

Yes, the work is very fullfulling and - and it does humble me. These are some of the most creative people I have ever met in one single place. The people come and go home and new inpatients arrive- but the creativity amongst them is always abuntantly apparant.

I just went to the 12th annual crisis intervention conference in WI Dells, and was gleefully inspired to see that practictioners and providers are jumping on the recovery bandwagon all over the country...finally.

One of the most inspiring speakers was Pat Deegan PhD, who spents years dealing with schizophrenia, obediently complying to large doses of drugs that kept her voices quieter, but also kept her far away form her true self, unable to think and feel through the fog of medication. Fed up-She decided to take control and found that by using less medicine, and using headphones that would drown out her voices she was able to think and feel again. (along with other coping techniques) She went on to getting her Doctorate, becoming a famous author and speaker, and awesome advocate for the mentally ill. If you want to take a moment this is a very inspiring story that tells of incredible resiliency of the human spirit.

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