Tag: indifference

• Where we lead…

  In the past two and a half months, my yoga practice has been very spotty, it has boiled down to two times a week, and I am now understanding the sentiment of caring for your self or more importantly what it feels like again, to not care.

  Without care or interest, to be indifferent to the bodies needs. To feel myself almost going to sleep or in a daze and be too tired to begin.

  What we fail to notice is that when we are too tired to do something, we are actually playing to indifference; we are feeding the lack of care.

  It finally came to me what I have been doing, I have been leaving myself alone.

  Leaving the care of my body, walking away from what it needs and just sitting down.

  I could feel the waves of indifference, what I used to call being lazy, with no umph is actually the expression of indifference.

  You become indifferent to what it needs for its optimum health.

  What I find so intriguing is that when my daughter’s abuse came in and I experienced posttraumatic symptoms, I left my self-care.

  It is strange that when our body needs us the most we are the farthest away.
  It wasn’t that I was disconnected from the stress and wasn’t dealing with life, but what I failed to do was treat my body, to care for its needs.

  As I did yoga yesterday I was surprised that my body still remembered the poses, that it did it’s best with stiff and sore muscles, and that it tried to keep up to what I was asking of it, and I felt its struggle for it wasn’t used to this routine.

  The body’s forgiveness is pure nature; it simply follows where we lead.

  (What I know for sure today, is that by not doing yoga I am feeding indifference. So when I sit and feel unable to get up and do my yoga, I know to whom I am dancing with, what music I am hearing, I am hearing the beating of the drum being led away from me.)

  April 4, 2011

  Bikram, body, caring, exercise, forgiveness, healthy, indifference, lazy, letting go, routine, uncaring, whole, Yoga

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• I see me

  “Tolerance is another word for indifference.” William Somerset Maugham

  I am not sure you can have tolerance unless you are indifferent.

  Indifferent – without care or interest: showing no care or concern for or interest in somebody or something.

  I am looking at abuse and addictions from the point of the person who is on the receiving end.

  Usually abuse is looked at from the point of the abuser or addictions from the point of the substance.

  We forget to look closely at the person who is getting abused and why they have the tolerance or seem indifferent to the blows and words that are hitting them; it is because they are without care or interest for their self.

  They are indifferent to their own life.

  They show no care or concern for or interest in their own life.

  My question is when did they become so careless?
  When did they let them selves go?
  What happened that they no longer care?

  What I can know in my life is that I don’t even recall a self; I was too little to know I had a self to hang on to, to care about and to care for, and it was gone.

  My self was gone before I even had a chance to know it and know that there was something to protect.

  When a child is raised in an environment where the adults are indifferent to the child’s needs, we then become indifferent to them ourselves.

  Imagine, parents who are indifferent, without care or interest: showing no care or concern for or interest in somebody or something…and that somebody is you.

  We learn indifference.

  How they treat us is how we treat ourselves.

  We learn how to not care or show interest in our selves.

  In fact in order to survive, it is best to not have a self.

  For a self would feel their indifference and we don’t want to feel their indifference.

  It is easier to be without a self, to live in a pretend space, making believe that they care and the only way you can believe that story is to be separated from your self.

  To deny your body, deny your feelings, to not be connected to the self.

  A self who is not there will not feel their indifference…but lke the old saying goes, “If a tree falls and no one is in the forest to hear it, does it still make a noise?”

  In the same manner, if a child isn’t there to feel the indifference, does the indifference still happen?

  If a self is unaware does the indifference still affect them?

  When you are indifferent how can you know indifference?

  I don’t know what was more shocking their indifferences or me not caring for me, for me to see the lack of interest in my own life and wellbeing.

  I was indifferent to my whole life…and had to bring me back to my world, to undo the indifferences and learn how to care.

  In caring I found me.

  I am no longer indifferent… I see me.

  April 2, 2011

  abuse, awareness, beliefs, caring, childhood, dependent, indifference, life, lost, other, parents, self, tolerance, unaware, views

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• Indifferent to Love.

  “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool.”         

      Richard Feynman

   

  It is amazing to me how a fool will take my place, how the mental lady slips into my awareness and shields me from the truth and unbeknownst to me, a different view of reality is transposed upon a kind world.

   

  This happens when I am wide-awake, it happens slyly as I bend back into an old relationship, I revert back to my old persona and with it comes tricky glasses and my awareness turns the opposites into truths.

   

  I am the fool and the fooled, which seems the weirdest of all circus tricks!

   

  What is even weirder is that I believe the foolish tricks and lose sight and faith in reality, while focused on the trick being played out in front.

   

  The trick feeds upon my fears, each lending themselves to each other in a whirlwind or a cyclone spinning madness upon my reality, neither stops to see if there is evidence to the contrary in reality, just whirling around false truths and replacing good with bad and bad with good, like flipping a switch, my whole world becomes hostile and I am immediately tossed the coat of armor to stand in defense.

   

  My enemies are those that love me, my friends those who are indifferent, flopped upside down again, I am mad.

   

  Not mad in anger, but a mad woman who focuses her energies to change what is; breaking reality once again, by not seeing the truth as it lays naked.

   

  This mad woman doesn’t accept what is but stands with potential of change.  She believes in potential of change, not in what is right in front of her.

   

  How would you hold on to the potential for change?  Does potential for change have roots?  How does one know the direction potential of change is heading?  Is that a spot to sit upon?

   

  If I sat in the spot of “potential to change” what am I doing at that moment?  Am I moving or acting in reality, or am I just simply evading change.

   

  This land ‘potential for change’ is where I stored my whole family (childhood family).  And in doing so it spared me from feeling reality.

   

  If there is potential for change, there is hope.

  And where there is hope, reality slips away.

   

  (I had to go back to an old post to grab this quote that I loved, and I still do.)

   

  “If you give up hope, you will likely find your life is infinitely richer.  Here’s why:  When you live in hope, it’s usually because you’re avoiding reality.”  Gay Hendricks

   

  I was avoiding the finality of indifference. 

   

  While I was hoping their indifference would change, I was indifferent to the love at hand.

   

  In my reality my home has love where indifference once stood. 

   

  When mad, I am indifferent to love.

   

   
  

   

  March 28, 2010

  hope, hopelessness, indifference, love, potential for change, reality

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