My focus last night was on the runes, and I’m more aware than ever of the need to incorporate their wisdom into my life as guiding principles to live by. I’m taking a new look at my own interpretation, discovering what the runes means to me and how I can apply those insights into my life.
I have a desire to have a 9-day retreat to focus on the runes and deepening my connection with them. I’m going deeper to connect with the inner Runemaster and to understand what meaning each rune embodies. I’m taking every possible opportunity to bring my life and constitution in line with natural and spiritual law.
When I was young, my questions for knowledge were driven by a desire to master life. As I matured, it became an attempt to produce some legacy that could be left behind. Now, it is just a process of discovering more before time catches up with me and the hope to glimpse more of this extraordinary world beyond normal perception.
I value life and the window of opportunity to deep-dive into esoteric knowledge gained by awareness and experience. The challenge is to bring something of it back into the actual realm of existence. We can bring order and joy into life so that we are no longer victims of entropy, but can find order and peace within the cycle of life.
I feel a deep presence in both work and love, and the pressure shows through my cracks and weaknesses. It’s time for shadow work and to acknowledge that I am still far from perfection and as I age these weaknesses might show even more clearly. However, I continue to make adjustments until I can no longer avoid the inevitable. I remain accountable for my life and responsible for my actions. I will continue to carry the best interests of those who depend on me.
To acknowledge weakness is not a flae, nor a sign of pessimism or depression. Knowing yourself means knowing truly and deeply who you are, in the full picture of your being. Knowing your weaknesses also helps you to appreciate the strength that you have to cope with those weaknesses. I appreciate more than ever these silent moments of getting in touch with my inner soul, and even my own demons. I am at peace with this moment, and I am gentle with myself. I take care of my own inner spirit so that it can be of service to humanity and those around me, whether appreciated by others or not.
I have no argument to make people love me. I can only set myself on the best path that I can muster, one that will serve the greater good of all. I have no expectations from others, as their reactions and actions are beyond my control. For me, there are only open arms to embrace when I can extend love and service to those around me. I don’t need love to love, or respect to respect. I take care of myself so that I can be loving and resilient in the love that I give.
That is the hero’s journey – to be true to myself. It is to live to the best of my ability, to attain my destiny. Today, I will do both and I will do the best that I can, striving to be impeccable rather than perfect.
Do you sometimes just feel irritable for no reason? I slept well, but I found myself surprisingly easily irritable on this lovely morning. Even small, insignificant things seemed to shake my equilibrium.
I’m dismayed at how easily non-consequential events can upset me. I was frustrated for example because my normally cute dog, did not want to go outside. When I called her. Consequently, this morning, I’m working at transforming this uncool sense of irritability within me.
It’s a beautiful morning outside, the sun is shining, and there is no rain. I have no immediate pressures on me, yet I feel irritable. I don’t understand the source of this irritability, but I know that I can redirect its energy into calmness, focus, and a deliberate mindset.
Rather than being caught up in the disturbance, I am raising myself above the situation to bring calm within myself. I do this by visualizing the situation and it’s outcome as it would play out without the irritability. By rethinking the situation and seeing the new outcome within me and the feeling of calm within me I am reprogramming my mind to react differently and more in line with my values and ethics. This visualization along with a reflection on the virtues I aspire to bring into my life, are powerful transformative techniques. I use these techniques to reframe my thinking and emotive reaction to life circumstances.
This rune IS is very appropriate for this exercise, as it assists me today to focus and put the storm to rest before it even begins.
Anger, irritability, and frustration: I abandon and reject. In exchange, I invite in peace, calm, and focus.
I bring the light of my inner consciousness to shine within me. The anger and frustration burn away and dissolve. I am calm. I am at peace.
I smile at the newfound strength of my inner being as it rises up and fills my essence and spills over into my existence. I am the power of the wild beast that stands proudly in field unperturbed by the storm clouds that gather on the horizon. This metaphor, borrowed from the rune UR, helps me to further strengthen the picture that I envision for myself of the calmness that overwrite all traces of irritability.
Are you sitting with feelings you no longer want as attachments? Take time out and reframe your experience and create new patterns of thought for your mind to venture on. With repeated use new neuropathways are developed for the impulsive mind to follow. Ultimately the pathways you no longer want, like irritability, will no longer be an option. What you do want , like the pathway of calmness, will become your default.
On this equinox, let us take a moment to reflect on the importance of balance and harmony in our lives. As the seasons change, so too must we be flexible and adaptable in order to maintain balance and harmony within ourselves and with the world around us.
Heraclitus famously said that “everything flows” and that “change is the only constant.” He believed that the universe is in a state of constant flux, and that we must be flexible and adaptable in order to maintain balance and harmony in our lives.
Temperance requires self-control, and moderation requires us to choose to avoid extremes, even when there is abundance to enjoy. Abundance seldom lasts, and when we overindulge, the following lack will feel more extreme. Most of the time, extremes come with negative side effects, and they are seldom beneficial when totally absorbed.
The counterargument, of course, is that by never going to extremes, we limit our experience. I have always argued that the golden mean is our protection. If 100% is the extreme, then the extreme we can comfortably handle is 68% of the 100%. This is the golden mean rule I have put in place for myself. It requires a measure of mindfulness and wisdom to assess in various life situations where the golden mean extreme is.
In addition, it works with the rule of polarity, which states that we must not have the light without the shadow, the positive without the negative. We must have the flexibility and agility to flow freely between these two extremes of +68% and -68% extreme points. The rule of balance is not to get stuck in perpetual balance, but to always be balancing. Our state of balancing must be in harmony with the environment.
Abraham Maslow, the American humanist psychologist, wrote on the importance of self-actualization, which he defined as the realization of one’s full potential. He believed that we must achieve a balance between our needs and our values in order to self-actualize.
I encourage you to take some time today to reflect on your own life and identify areas where you can achieve greater balance and harmony. What are your needs and values? What are your strengths and weaknesses? How can you live a more balanced and harmonious life?
Remember, balance and harmony are not destinations, but rather journeys. It’s important to be patient and kind to yourself as you work towards achieving them.
I’m changing my mind. I have always seen control as being an illusion, since there are so many unpredictable things that can happen in life. I cannot even remember what caused this belief within me.
In my quiet time today, I took out again the idea of control. As a fresh monad, I had to consider and challenge my perceptions and conclusions on the topic. I realized how much the technology that surrounds me is dependent on control to ensure a more predictable outcome. I realized that my health is in a similar way dependent on how I control my everyday life: my breathing, my eating, my sleeping.
Control requires a feedback loop, called. cybernetics. I should bring mindfulness into my life as a means of cybernetics. Right now, after every action or thought, I should ask myself, “Was it beneficial or uplifting?” Is healthy for my mind, body, and spirit? Too often, we just do without consciously closing the loop to ask if the action just completed, the word just spoken, or the thought just thought has taken us towards our destiny or what we want to become.
I must not miss the value of applying cybernetics into my live. Sure, things will go wrong and unexpected things will happen, but then it is the conscious awareness of the feedback loop that will assist me to return to my original call or destiny, enabling me to correct my actions and words, and redirect myself into the direction I need to go. The more regular the feedback loop, the more frequent the correction and less traumatic the action.
Today I realized that I can change my mind on the concept of control and it is liberating!
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