Tag: apathy

• I left Apathy behind.

  "One of the biggest obstacles of handling and letting go of fear is the fear of fear itself."  David Hawkins, writes in his book, "Healing and Recovery".

  Fear of feeling fear stops us from living life or walking into unchartered territories. But what if you were not afraid to feel fear? You know what fear feels like to you and if you can handle feelings of fear, you are limitless.

  My feelings of fear are those of panic, and unable to escape or control…feelings of being caught doing something wrong, my gut does flip and I feel embarrassed, inept…

  I would bet most of my fear feelings would equal those feelings of learning something new, or going some place unknown….Yet a more heightened state.

  What David suggests is seeing if you can withstand the sensations of fear…that it isn't really the thing you are afraid of but the sensations of fear.

  Becoming familiar and confident in withstanding the sensations of fear, will set you free to do and try many things.

  I got to be pretty friendly with fear as I walked away from my family of origin.  I feared feeling feelings, especially those that were negative and painful.  But what I also learned you don't die from feeling…but are among the living dead when you don't feel.

  Another sentence I read from Mark Nepo's book, "The Book of Awakening, was "We tend to make the thing in the way the way." 

  Reading this sentence gave me a new way to look at why it is that I am uninspired to do yoga.  

  The thing in the way is apathy, laziness…

  It was the way for me.

  But not the way to feeling a strong limber body.  I stood on the path of apathy.

  Today, after reading that sentence, I stepped off of apathy way, and onto the yoga mat.

  There was nothing in the way from me doing yoga but being used to sitting on apathy way.

  Two very popular pathways in my life are fear and apathy.  Perhaps we don't want to feel fear and then become apathetic…for we are unable to move forward.

  When I stood up from my chair, I left apathy behind.

   

  February 9, 2012

  apathy, choices, david, fear, feelings, Hawkins, I l, Mark, Nepo

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• Who can End it.

  If you knew of abusive behavior in your town, your church or your family would you speak? Would you contact someone to help the children who are at risk or who have already been abused?

  While most seem to think this is a no brainer, you would be very surprised at the amount of people who speak amongst each other passing around our abuse like useless pieces of paper, but WILL NOT speak of it to the authorities.

  If you knew enough to keep your children away, but not share this info with Child Protective Services, why isn’t that enough to voice your suspicions out loud and to the people who can make it stop?

  I know why I am not hearing this for I am one of the people who is spoken about in the talking rings, in the circles of sharing others troubles, but if you can speak it out loud to another, why oh why can’t you speak of it to the Child Protect Services.

  Within my old church, I have far off snippets of info, which are passed on like faint echoes, but nothing with enough information that I can share. In fact, most will not mention names and feel its honorable.

  What in the world is it that keeps us from speaking the names and loudly of those who rape, fondle and abuse children? Who are we as humans to share these crimes but not report them?

  What will it take to break the silence?

  Being in the camp of abusers I hear little, and those that know more are silent. I feel drowned in frustration at the ‘good Christian folk’ who act so unchristian like.

  It seems they are on the side of evil, for all it takes for evil to prevail, is for good men to do nothing! (Can’t remember whose quote that is.)

  If only I had the ear of everyone in just my old church, who knew and is sitting holding that information as something juicy to share…please get up and hand it over to someone who can stop this insanity.

  Your secrets are undermining all you hold sacred…in fact your silence is adding daily to the team of abuse.

  If only I knew why silence is more comfortable than saving one child from an abuser? The generations that are affected, the years that pass, the days that go by and the abuser lives to abuse and the information pass harmlessly among those who will not stop it. What insanity this is?

  My one wish is that you find the strength to take one shaky step in the direction that can put a stop to even one abuser.

  If you know enough to speak of it, speak of it to those who can end it.

  May 12, 2011

  apathy, child, continue, evil, Protective, Services, silence, speaking

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