I have been doing a great deal of thinking about the rabbit hole . First what is a rabbit hole according ? I feel like it is the dark place that we go into when we hear any challenging and hard to hear news about ourselves, our family and loved ones, our planet etc... . This week, I learned that my second dog Roxie has a very small mast cell tumor on her left side . As you can imagine, this news sent me down the rabbit hole for so many different reasons. Pixie, our fairy dog, was diagnosed with this condition about two years ago and this turned our lives upside down. We changed so many things about our lifestyle, and theirs as a result. I thought, here we go again, what are we going to go through now. What did we do wrong that Roxie has it now. Don't get me wrong, I know , that all of the changes that we made , were important and necessary and have kept Pixie alive and well for over two years. However, it is not easy to go through these changes and now again. Perhaps another time, I will write about the dogs and mast cell tumors, Today, I just want to talk about how to work with the rabbit hole . I feel like we can use it to our advantage. Take the energy of everything that could go wrong and focus on what could go differently.
As a planet, we have entered the rabbit holes of scarcity, poverty, ill health, revenge and isolation. I believe that the past presidential elections allowed us to escape our individual holes and focus on a hopeful turn around. We were diverted in a glorous way by the grace and beauty of the Obama family. However they have alot of work to do and they cannot save all of us. We must individually be responsible for getting out of our own ways. We are all facing our own versions of "Roxie's health" . What if these versions are simply challenges to get us out of our ruts and really look at what's next. The universe has an amazing way of guiding us.
Perhaps, if you are faced with losing a job. there were things about that employment that you never liked and now you have a chance to find what you really love.
What if you are ill and already knew that your lifestyle was unhealthy and know you can make the changes to live better. What if the rabbit hole is simply one version of the future and we can change that version. What if none of this is really bad or good and simply information that we can choose to use and not.
For us with roxie, we now get to choose about very practical things like surgery or not, rabies vaccinations, changing our vet to one that matches our desires more clearly or even on a bigger scale. What if part of my work, is to begin doing pet bereavement and loss counseling. Perhaps, this is work that I would never have gotten to without this nudge from the universe. I adore my dogs and perhaps they are quiding this gently and lovingly for me. I feel like the rabbit hole mirror has many dimensions and we get to choose our focus. So what will yours be. Staying in the darkness or noticing that there the shades of light?
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tower of Babel
What if the significance of the tower of Babel really lies in what happened before it existed. What if everyone spoke the same language, all humans, animals, tree, flowers, water, all of nature. What if the fairies were able to communicate with humans, trees could talk to humans, and dogs could talk to trees and babies and children could talk to everyone. Then I catch myself, well some of those things really do happen, babies do know how to commuicate with animals and flowers easily. Dogs do know how to talk to trees. What has changed is the human factor. Humans speak so many different languages and get confused, We create wars and grudges out of simple misunderstandings.
What if the Native American languages( refer to language post please) that emphasized kinesthetics or feelings were the true language of communication with all things. We often hear that the native way was being connected to all things and valuing all life. What if all traditional cultures, used the same language before the tower of Babel. Gods could talk to humans, to dogs, to flowers to trees to fairies to Godesses.
I want to create that time again. I want all of us to be able to ask our dogs what is the matter and understand the answer. I want to be able to ask the mulberry tree in my yard why it no longer produces berries or the rasberry bushes are all thorns?
What a magical communicative world it could be. If you want to read an interesting writer that does communicate easily with nature, please check out Michaelle Small Wright's books .
What if the Native American languages( refer to language post please) that emphasized kinesthetics or feelings were the true language of communication with all things. We often hear that the native way was being connected to all things and valuing all life. What if all traditional cultures, used the same language before the tower of Babel. Gods could talk to humans, to dogs, to flowers to trees to fairies to Godesses.
I want to create that time again. I want all of us to be able to ask our dogs what is the matter and understand the answer. I want to be able to ask the mulberry tree in my yard why it no longer produces berries or the rasberry bushes are all thorns?
What a magical communicative world it could be. If you want to read an interesting writer that does communicate easily with nature, please check out Michaelle Small Wright's books .
What language are you speaking?
Language
While reading the book "Beyond Words" by Marta Williams, I stumbled upon an amazing discovery. Language can be a kinesthetic communication. I thought that I was the only one that did not think in pictures, I always thought in words. I even dream in words. Sometimes, in other languages, ie. French , Spanish and Greek .
A Native American Linguist named Dan MoonHawk Alford studied native languages for many years. He became aware of dramatic differences between European languages and some native languages. European languages emphasize the noun and are primarily visual. Native languages emphasize the experience and are kinesthetic. So if you are talking about dancing, the English speaker would emphasize the dancer and the native speaker would talk about dancing. Imagine language where the focus is on the feeling of smooth, red hot, intense, breathless and not whether the dancer is male and is ballroom dancing.
This was a huge awareness for me. So some people speak with a visual emphasis and others with feelings. What implications are there for human communication?
What if two people are talking about how to describe a chair. One insists that what matters is the height of it and the other is only aware of the function. Does it fit with the desk and allow leg room? Is it comfortable? It is hard to reach agreement and argument ends the discussion. Perhaps it has to do with which part of the brain, left or right, is emphasized when languaging. Perhaps, it is genetic . What if we are born with kinesthetic language and then lose it as a part of maturation. What if our children are primarily kinesthetic in their language and our educational system emphasizes visual. What if we have to give up our innate language to fit into what society wants us to say?
While reading the book "Beyond Words" by Marta Williams, I stumbled upon an amazing discovery. Language can be a kinesthetic communication. I thought that I was the only one that did not think in pictures, I always thought in words. I even dream in words. Sometimes, in other languages, ie. French , Spanish and Greek .
A Native American Linguist named Dan MoonHawk Alford studied native languages for many years. He became aware of dramatic differences between European languages and some native languages. European languages emphasize the noun and are primarily visual. Native languages emphasize the experience and are kinesthetic. So if you are talking about dancing, the English speaker would emphasize the dancer and the native speaker would talk about dancing. Imagine language where the focus is on the feeling of smooth, red hot, intense, breathless and not whether the dancer is male and is ballroom dancing.
This was a huge awareness for me. So some people speak with a visual emphasis and others with feelings. What implications are there for human communication?
What if two people are talking about how to describe a chair. One insists that what matters is the height of it and the other is only aware of the function. Does it fit with the desk and allow leg room? Is it comfortable? It is hard to reach agreement and argument ends the discussion. Perhaps it has to do with which part of the brain, left or right, is emphasized when languaging. Perhaps, it is genetic . What if we are born with kinesthetic language and then lose it as a part of maturation. What if our children are primarily kinesthetic in their language and our educational system emphasizes visual. What if we have to give up our innate language to fit into what society wants us to say?
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