Obviously, I have disappeared from Pagan Blog Project for the last couple of weeks. Life has not trolled me, as it did last time, rather I have been busy with my students and with my own lessons. Life has been quite awesome, despite the lingering cold of winter.
My own lessons have been more life lessons. I have been dealing with a co-worker who is inherently negative. When I say 'dealing with', what I mean is hitting her with so much positive energy that she either smiles or runs the other way. Either way, her vibration rises for a few moments and she feels better. Depending upon the day and how she wants to feel is how she reacts. Lately, she has been running away, but she hasn't been unaffected by the positivity which surrounds her. (Two of my other co-workers are inherently positive people, so they have been unknowingly bombarding her with positive energy, too.)
I have also found myself coming to certain realizations about life and people and recognizing how I read it or them. My High Priest teaches that we all live out the myths and legends. During the lessons on this, I got the concept and saw the truth of his words, but it didn't hit me until recently. I have called it something different, recognizing it as 'The Pattern.'
All of life follows a specific series of events which repeat over and over again. We call these things lessons because as we live the lessons, we either fall into a comfortable pattern of expectation (also called insanity) or we recognize the pattern and try something different. In recent days and weeks, I have found myself stepping outside of The Pattern (at least, more than I normally do) and 'reading' events with a relatively accurate success rate as to how they will end. Am I correct all of the time? No. Predicting when another person is going to give up their insanity (defined here as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results) isn't quite yet my strong suit. I'm still working on observing the pattern of trial and error and seeing when frustration leads to a change of habit. I may never be able to do that reliably with other people, though. I know this. However, in working on the pattern in my own life, I should be able to use it to recognize my own lessons and insanities and change my own failures into successes.
I like the allegory I was taught of living out the myths and legends. It takes a difficult concept and gives a student something tangible like a story to wrap his or her brain around. It gives us something to relate to because we have all read stories where we were drawn in and lived with the characters as they struggled through whatever was written. In contrast, the only way I can describe 'The Pattern' is to compare it to being unplugged from the Matrix and being able to 'read' the symbols on the screen which represent certain people or programs. It's not a perfectly accurate description, but it gives a relatively descent comparison.
So, while I haven't been doing much writing lately, I've been doing other work. Sometimes life takes away things, like writing, because the receiving of my own lessons are more important. Writing, for me, is an escape. I step outside of life, whether it be good or bad, for just a little while, and become nothing more than brain, fingers, and keyboard. Life has demanded that I be more than that these past few weeks.
Thank you, friends, for checking out my blog in this time, curious to read what I should write next. It warms my heart and humbles me.
Brightest of blessings, wherever you are!
My own lessons have been more life lessons. I have been dealing with a co-worker who is inherently negative. When I say 'dealing with', what I mean is hitting her with so much positive energy that she either smiles or runs the other way. Either way, her vibration rises for a few moments and she feels better. Depending upon the day and how she wants to feel is how she reacts. Lately, she has been running away, but she hasn't been unaffected by the positivity which surrounds her. (Two of my other co-workers are inherently positive people, so they have been unknowingly bombarding her with positive energy, too.)
I have also found myself coming to certain realizations about life and people and recognizing how I read it or them. My High Priest teaches that we all live out the myths and legends. During the lessons on this, I got the concept and saw the truth of his words, but it didn't hit me until recently. I have called it something different, recognizing it as 'The Pattern.'
All of life follows a specific series of events which repeat over and over again. We call these things lessons because as we live the lessons, we either fall into a comfortable pattern of expectation (also called insanity) or we recognize the pattern and try something different. In recent days and weeks, I have found myself stepping outside of The Pattern (at least, more than I normally do) and 'reading' events with a relatively accurate success rate as to how they will end. Am I correct all of the time? No. Predicting when another person is going to give up their insanity (defined here as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results) isn't quite yet my strong suit. I'm still working on observing the pattern of trial and error and seeing when frustration leads to a change of habit. I may never be able to do that reliably with other people, though. I know this. However, in working on the pattern in my own life, I should be able to use it to recognize my own lessons and insanities and change my own failures into successes.
I like the allegory I was taught of living out the myths and legends. It takes a difficult concept and gives a student something tangible like a story to wrap his or her brain around. It gives us something to relate to because we have all read stories where we were drawn in and lived with the characters as they struggled through whatever was written. In contrast, the only way I can describe 'The Pattern' is to compare it to being unplugged from the Matrix and being able to 'read' the symbols on the screen which represent certain people or programs. It's not a perfectly accurate description, but it gives a relatively descent comparison.
So, while I haven't been doing much writing lately, I've been doing other work. Sometimes life takes away things, like writing, because the receiving of my own lessons are more important. Writing, for me, is an escape. I step outside of life, whether it be good or bad, for just a little while, and become nothing more than brain, fingers, and keyboard. Life has demanded that I be more than that these past few weeks.
Thank you, friends, for checking out my blog in this time, curious to read what I should write next. It warms my heart and humbles me.
Brightest of blessings, wherever you are!
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