November 3, 2006

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  Don’t think away your feelings

  When emotions are managed by the heart, they heighten your
  awareness of the world around you and add sparkle to life. The result is new
  intelligence and a new view of life.

  – Doc Childre and Howard Martin

  How do you intellectualize your emotions?

  Many of us live so much in our heads that we
  intellectualize our emotions. We analyze, rationalize and explain them away so
  quickly that we dont actually experience them.

  Learn to honour your emotions at all times by being willing
  to feel them. Of course, you may need to exercise some judgment over how and
  when you express them.

  “Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to
  use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime
  skill.”

  – Joan Borysenko

  	Slip into a cave of consciousness… … a protected place within meant for you and you alone. Explore this glorious underground cavern, a cathedral of earth and stone shimmering and sparkling with the secrets of the deep. Let its volume awaken you to full focus. Let yourself be “alive”… so much so that you let out a sound — a whoop, a whisper, a song, a single sustained note… Hear it come back to you from the vast reaches of this underground palace — a sound strong and true… a song of you… Musical selections

  

  The Toms The Toms 1979

  The Toms is singer-songwriter Tom Marolda’s 1979
  multiple-personality debut, one in which he plays all the instruments and does
  all the voices on a collection chock-full of songs in the great pop-rock
  tradition: hummable melodies and catchy lyrics with an undeniably danceable
  beat. The tunes are immediately memorable, the hooks irresistible, and the words
  are wry, insightful, and often funny. Most are terrifically upbeat, propelled by
  a chiming, bell-like Rickenbacker 12-string guitar; round, bouncing bass parts;
  and straight-ahead in-the-pocket drumming. Even if you hadn’t read about
  Marolda’s love for the Beatles in some officious, encyclopedic tome-especially
  his appreciation for Paul McCartney’s gift for infectious melody and snappy,
  memorable words-you would have to know that Marolda is certainly a true fan and
  of one mind when it comes to making the song and its instrumentation a total
  unforgettable entity.

  The album starts off with the proverbial bang
  (think Rubber Soul). Beginning with a rapidly pounding bass and a
  repeated nose-diving guitar riff, “Let’s Be Friends Again” is, like many of
  Marolda’s songs, about wanting to get back together again. But Marolda is so
  cheerful and positive that reuniting feels like a foregone conclusion. The
  singer dismisses his former girlfriend’s current love and summarizes with the
  title’s almost innocent invitation. The breakneck beat and Marolda’s soaring
  harmonies immediately, unavoidably draw you in. He uses a similar hard-hitting
  tempo on “The Flame,” but here the full-strummed 12-string guitar riff is
  ascending, climbing over and over as Marolda sings about someone else’s
  unrequited love. “Nothing becomes something / Some things stay the same / She
  can’t put out the flame,” he sings, although you know full well he won’t stop
  trying to get closer.

  Marolda hardly ever slows down although “Think
  About Me,” which morphs out of the end of “The Flame,” qualifies as a pretty,
  sincerely sung, medium-tempo love song. It’s quickly followed by the faster
  moving “Better Than Anyone Else,” which is Marolda doing what he does best: a
  quirky, moving verse followed by a full-choir chorus. As his 12-string wraps
  itself around the melody, Marolda’s multitracked vocal finish explodes, asking
  his girl to know him “better than he knows himself / Better than anyone else.”
  It’s almost hard to believe the Toms is one guy, but Marolda’s seamless playing
  and singing, so effortlessly rich and robust, and the infectious quality of the
  songs make the Toms something you want to return to again and again.
  

  	Listen to all sound clips from this CD
  “Let’s Be Friends Again” “The Flame” “Better Than Anyone Else”

  Buy this CD

  Work with tension

  You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension
  and discipline are taken out of your life.

  – James G. Bilkey

  We need tension in our lives. Its the force of personal
  evolution — it sparks creativity and higher consciousness. If were not
  comfortable with a situation, we try to improve it, right?

  Tension arises through our experience of opposites. These
  opposites fight each other as each one struggles for dominance. Tension is
  transformed when two opposite dimensions of reality are brought together in
  balance and in wholeness.

  Know that tension is an integral part of growth. Instead of
  avoiding or resisting tension when it arises, identify the opposing forces at
  play. Make space for each of them to be there together and the tension will
  transform.

  We encounter tensions between positives and negatives, mind
  and body, self and environment, self and others, and personality and soul the
  dualities in our lives.

  “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

  – Neale Donald Walsch

  My daughter has the day off since it’s the end of the quarter, so no doubt we’ll be ‘fighting’ over the computer today!

  I added to the rules to say, only one entry per person for The Poetry Contest!!

  Hope everyone has a super Friday!

  I love you!!

  

  Do you think guys with comb-overs look good?
  What makes them think it’s good?
  

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