1406(B) IS YOUR BRAIN STILL FOOLING YOU?

2015
Please glance up at the name of my blog before offering these horoscopic musings serious reconsideration:

When intuition tells you something different from what the rest of the world seems to be saying, whom do you trust?  (Here's how intuition differs from anxiety:  With intuition comes an insightful sense of clarity that inspires creativity to rebalance a plan in such a positively focused way as to calm anxiety, releasing peace of mind from captivity once personal needs have been reconsidered, all around.)

You may ask opinions of those you admire though you are well aware that they do not know your inner world a millionth as well as you do.  Trust yourself.

Just because something is difficult to understand and describe doesn't make it any less real ...
Brainstorm till the inexplicable makes sense to you..

A past encounter sets off a chain of events.  When life offers mystery, you are just the person to solve it and choose the fork in the road that frees you to kick up your heels with joy ...

(Repetition is not redundant when you realize that retention of insight, concerning the enhancement of personal joy and inner peace, is a viable goal ...)

Flew home from a family wedding in
Miwaukee, yesterday, suggesting why
My writing time between Thursday and today
Was limited, as most of my waking hours were
Spent embracing cousins from around
The country, who'd also chosen to celebrate
This joyous occasion with
Bride and groom and their extended families ...

Throughout all of the festivities, many toasts were
Made to good health for two reasons:
One, it's hard to believe
How quickly we've reached this age, and
One dearly loved cousin, whose
Dancing feet remained grounded
Is so unwell as to have been selected to
Participate in a clinical trial at Mayo, and
When her blue eyes welled with tears as
We held each other close while
Saying 'so long', so did mine ...

Tonight's dinner date with dear friends and
Tomorrow's play date with Ravi are sure to lift
The heaviness that hit my spirit like
A lead weight while hugging my cousin close ...
You see, her tears and then mine expressed
Heartfelt emotion, flowing
Back and forth, running too deep for words ...
During that hug, we communicated more of what
Each of us felt than either had been able to
Convey over this past year when
The harsh truth of her illness had
Silenced our voices each time we'd phoned

As you can see, creating balance in all things
Proves more important than ever as
We and our loved ones enter this last stage of life ...
And with that deeper truth in
The forefront of our minds
There's no time like the present to reconnect with
Every heart that remains open to welcoming our love ...

As none know what tomorrow may bring ...
I plan to embrace an attitude of generosity that
Directs my mind to offer my spirit the freedom to
Revel in every possible joy that love has to offer ...

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2015
The magic inherent in intuition induced me to
Check out a post penned in the past, and
Much to my surprise, here is what I found, written years ago ...

Post 708 CONFUSION IS A SELF TRUST TROUNCER

As confusion can be a self trust trouncer

I work to minimize anxiety for this reason:
Anxiety interferes with our powers of logical reasoning
Once I regain control over my reasoning powers
Confusion is more likely to straighten itself out, and
Here's why that proves true, time and again:

Once my spirit brightens, insights are more likely to
Chug out of a tunnel inside my mind as naturally
As kernels of corn pop non stop in hot oil

At those times when anxiety causes my mind to feel

Too darkly complex for insights to pop

Suggesting that confusion is crowding

All sense of self trust into a dark spot within my mind
It's time to question whether several emotional reactions
Acting like jumping beans, are bouncing into each other while
I'm attempting to reorganize a semblance of
Logical thoughts to line up inside my head

At those times when several emotional reactions
Are leap frogging around, bouncing off
Each other like bumper cars
This next thought extends my patience:
Leaps and bounds of personal growth may be
Clashing with old mind sets inside my think tank ... Sooo ...
Though I may need to calm my emotional reactiveness down
That does not mean turning my churning emotional needs off

As calming Mother Nature's natural sense of
Emotional reactiveness makes good sense
My smarts aim to relax inner turmoil with dollops of
Introspective patience until
Nourishing kernels of personal growth begin to pop, suggesting
My need to reflect more deeply than ever over whatever experience
Has caused internal unrest to disrupt peace of mind
And once positive focus and mindful attention to

Detailing needs, all around, have been reconsidered in depth
Self trust begins to sense that insight into clarity, which

Balances emotion with logic, will soon be mine
And once insight into clarity is mine
My think tank taps into creativity, which inspires me to
Tweak a plan that did not offer peace of mind, first time round

Whew!  :)

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2015 More

A past encounter sets off a chain of events.  When life offers mystery, you are just the person to solve it and choose the fork in the road that frees you to kick up your heels with joy.

One person in your life has just the maddening quirks and charming idiosyncrasies to thrill and challenge you.

Simple pleasures make life great.  Your favorite person animates that.

This year inspires a change with a friendship that differs from any you've encountered before.

People you've lost touch with have reason to think about you ... Missing you ...

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2015. Horoscopic Musings

When intuition tells you something different from what the rest of the world seems to be saying, whom do you trust?

You may ask opinions of those you admire though you are well aware that they do not know your inner world a millionth as well as you do.  Trust yourself.

Just because something is difficult to understand and describe doesn't make it any less real ...
You have the smarts to brainstorm till the inexplicable makes sense to you.

The highlight of your life is learning to bring the best that experience has to offer not just to others but also to yourself.

With patience, insight into achieving balance and inner peace walk hand in hand ...

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2015
Each day, I glance up at the title of my current post and wonder if it should change to more aptly match the content; then I choose to let it be for this reason:  Sometimes, my mind reacts like the pilot of a direct flight, taking off from one location, jetting across the expanse of time until all passengers land at the same destination, safe and sound.  At other times, my mind pilots my blog and its passengers through interrelated thoughts, and as we travel, back and forth through time, that's when insight into simplifying complexity, which still puzzles me, tends to ignite.  Therefore, as we travel, back and forth, intuition is actively directing me to clarify (consciously) this fact:  Meandering is not what's happening.  What's happening is my conscious mind is engaged in absorbing a sense of depth perception that hindsight makes more readily assessable than that which had been possible in 'real' time, and thus do I come to see how 'this' is directly related to 'that', which had come before.  Each time I remember to clarify the importance of 'one change influencing another, inner conflict, concerning what to write next, resolves, freeing my whole mind to feel at ease about offering my inner pilot, who proves to be more knowledgable about intuiting which next fork in the road to choose than is true of my conscious state of mind, the freedom needed to function with the clarity that successful solution-seeking demands ...

Though, generally speaking, most flights, which touch down, here and there, pilot others where they need to go, that's not true of the auto pilot that controls the direction of each post I write.  The pilot, who directs my blog (and my life) is fully aware of where my conscious mind needs insight into hindsight in order to gain the foresight necessary to simplify emotional complexity, which had caused me to make decisions that had not offered me the freedom to be true to my deepest heart's desire at an earlier time in my life.  Thus, each time inner conflict arises, anew, concerning a heartrending decision I'd once thought necessary, which, intuition is still itching to reconsider, I seek deeper insight into this fact of life:  Life offers each of us reason to repeat the same 'lesson', again and again, until we can pinpoint the portion of a heartfelt plan, which did not work in our favor, so that once we tweak that which had interfered with achieving success, the illusive nature of that heartfelt goal and peace of mind are won, at last.

If you think that, upon awakening at 6:30, this morning, my conscious mind had a clue that intuition was about to direct my think tank to release these insights, please think again.  In truth, I'd no clue which word was about to appear on my screen until my inner pilot stopped my stylus from leaping all over the keyboard from one letter to another!  And as my conscious mind is not certain as to what intuition has directed me to clarify (though my feeling of clarity suggests that today's train of thought has successfully pulled into the station), I feel so certain of my ducks lining up in a row as to decide to publish this post without reviewing it, even once.

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2015
Amazing how much 'long distance fun' loving hearts can enjoy, many miles apart ...
Just sent four disposable cameras across the country, so my great nieces and nephew can take pictures at their little brother's birthday bash.  Then, I sent a text to their mommy asking her to ask the kids to save one snapshot, so that after their three year old brother's B/D surprise (storybook that spells out his name) arrives in two weeks, Mommy can snap a photo of her munchkin quartet, holding their special 'name' books, now that the set is complete, and once that photo is mailed to me, I'll slip it into a 4x6 frame and place it where I'm sure to see and smile at four smiling faces, every day!  When missing each other makes us feel sad, thoughts of enjoying our free-flowing, loving connection makes us feel glad!  Amazing how much 'long distance togetherness' warms hearts, separated by time and miles, when creativity comes out to play! And as I'm looking forward to enjoying a fun-in-the-sun play date with Ravi, that's all the writing time I have, today.
PS
Littlest brother, birthday boy shares his birthday with my mom, and oldest sister shares hers with my dad.  Fancy that!  When we're missing those who are loved, deeply, reasons to smile abound!  On the other hand, here's what happens when sadness or frustration causes us to stuff countless reasons to smile too deep inside:  Each time a smile, that's been repressed, tries to escape from feeling caged in a dark, gloomy place, it might slip out ... upside down!

Here are my great nieces and nephews, holding up honey sticks, like the ones I send, every now and then, to let them know that time spent with each one 'tastes' as sweet as sugar to me!

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2015

No time to write today, except to wish a dear friend a very Happy Birthday!