All I Can Do

[cedar_grove]

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

Wrapped within young leaves the sound of water.
--Soseki

This delicate observation by this Japanese poet is filled with the quiet hope that embedded in our nature, even as we begin, is our gift already unfolded.

This notion that we are already who and what we are and will grow into our potential given the right conditions and the right prompting - and acceptance of ourselves - is, to me, what comes out of today's thoughts.

As I sit here getting rid of the tail end of a headache that had me literally unable to do anything this morning, other than sit and fall asleep and wake and fall asleep and wake... and battling with the expectation of disappointment, (don't ask me why, but it's been haunting me for days), the other thought that runs along side this is: do not fear, all will be well. All will be as it should

In the wake of such thoughts, I shift my intentions, and any expectations, conscious or unconscious that I may have held, and prepare for what will be in the rest of the day, and as I sit here typing that thought, I brought to mind are the Western Affirmations of Hawayo Takata, who is sometimes know of as the 'Grandmother of Western Reiki.'

These principles, valued by practitioners of Reiki are not intended to mean that tomorrow you can do all of the things that you won't do today - but are in essence a guide to live in the now, because as we have seen above, the unfolding of tomorrow will take care of itself... so...

Just for today, I will not anger.
Just for today, I will let go of worry.
Just for today, I will do my work honestly.
Just for today, I will give thanks for my many blessings.
Just for today I will be kind ot my neighbour and every living thing.
Just for today, I will honour my teachers.

Comments

[mirrani.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I cause you so much distress. I'd say it would help if you'd tell me the truth about how you feel, but that would only cause you more distress. You want me help, I ask how you are, you say you're fine in a voice that says you're not, and then you get agitated when I suggest in any way, shape or form that you've told anything other than the truth. Then I come on here and find out there /is/ something wrong. To top it all off I'm out of movement for a while because of whatever's going on with my hips and I can'd to anything for you, while you have to jump up and do things for me. You know, it doesn't matter if whatever's bothering you is something I can /fix/ I just want to know what "it" /IS/.

And I want munchies and caffeine, but that's neither here nor there. ;)

[cedargrove.livejournal.com]

Part of the problem is that you assume it's you that's done it. Whatever /it/ is. I don't know what's causing the general feel of unsettledness, if I did I'd tell you.

Part of it may be worry over being good enough with this stuff I'm sending out, I'll accept that, but that's not all of it.

I just feel like I can't actually do anything, as in I haven't the energy or the wherewithall to be bothered, so I'm just sitting messing around on facebook or whatever. (though I do enjoy Garden's of Time).

As for your not being able to move, that /does/ worry me... and I wish I could wave a wand and make you better, and that's not just because we're kind of stuck with me doing stuff while you're down for the count, it's because I don't like to see you in pain.

The munchies and caffeine I can do something about - though it might mean interrupted hupping for a bit.