making some connections explicit
As another week passes and as I reflect on where I/you/we/humankind/this blog came from and where we're going, I follow my tried and trusted path back into words and etymologies.
In honor of the movie I reviewed and recommended in my previous post, and in honor of that recurrent question, the word of the week is Origin.
Written by Ela Harrison
on Friday, 21 November 2014.
Posted in All About Words, Herbs and Plants
harnessing confirmation bias
I have an intention to be open to synchronicity. It happens all the time anyway, so why not ask for it? Yes, I'm aware of the objection that I'm autosuggesting it, that we see what we want to see to some extent--but why on earth not? If I whisper a prayer to see a message about peace and then find a message about peace on my way to the grocery store, my prayer is looking for peace, and finding it!
Sometimes I make specific requests, sometimes I just put an idea out there in a more general way. Lately, I've been thinking about doing a parasite cleanse, probably a couple weeks from now when I finish the current diet (which is a red-orange-yellow-white-spectrum-focusing diet whereby I don't eat any green/blue/brown/black food; I have eleven days left of 45). I'd been assembling the herbs that speak to me for such a cleanse. Then I found myself at a park, totally by chance, looking at what I thought were black walnut trees!
Written by Ela Harrison
on Sunday, 02 November 2014.
Posted in Mindfulness, Herbs and Plants, Tucson