We embrace her energies
like jealous lovers,
this being called stress.
We address our lives
to her whims
in most of the moments
of our wakefulness.
We cling to her,
embrace her,
and hate ourselves for
her pitiful use of our energies and desires.
We claim stress from without,
in the dilemmas’ of our days
and take her to bed
to stir the nightmares of our dreams.
In reciprocation, our world rocks
with the stress
of our combined unbalanced energies.
Our pleas go to the heavens
for relief,
yet in our chatter
their answers go unheeded.
What is needed
to overcome this beast we walk with every day?
Simply learn to pray,
without words.
Start there to shut off the chatter
of your stress filled minds.
Find the time
in a simple moment
to let go
of everything that you cling to.
Relax.
Breath slowly.
Embrace a simple thought of Love Energy
and focus her light
around the inner vision
of your own soul.
Embrace the being that is you!
Think of nothing else.
Experiment with this tool
for one minute today.
Tomorrow give it two minutes.
With time you will find that
simply giving a moment of your day
to find and love yourself
will transmute the energies
of chaos
into a web of understanding
and balance.
Let go of everything in this moment…
in this now.
Then accept back
only those things
that you really can do something about today.
Let all else go away for now.
Live in the moment.
Live in the moment with a simple love
for the moment.
Life was created to be
a joyous event.
The sky and the stars,
the flora and fauna
all understand this balance.
They do not whisper
chaotic prayers
to the cosmos
and cling to energies
that do not belong to them.
For a moment,
stand softly as a tree in a summer breeze
and listen to the prayers
of a tree’s mind.
What you find
is going to surprise you!
BKBushman 12/02/2006
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
I Worry, Therefore, I Am
I Worry, Therefore, I Am
Hello new and beautiful day
(What if it rains later, should I take my umbrella?)
I walk your way in joy and peace,
(What if I walk into a puddle and catch cold?)
and cease my inner struggle
(I left something on the stove, I just know it)
towards the perfect me I think I’m supposed to be.
(What if they notice I cut myself shaving this morning?)
Write your story in my heart,
(I forgot to write my kid an excuse note again)
and may I start to hear the clearness
(What if his teacher thinks I’m the biggest flake)
of your simple ways.
Cleanse my days from
(What if she doesn’t show for lunch?)
the distractions I lose myself in.
(What if I leave my keys in the car again)
I begin to find the softness
(What if he didn’t let the dog out again)
in my inner being.
Now I will be seeing the moments of
(What if I misplaced the utility bills and they aren’t really paid?)
Inner peace
(What if that stupid man really does declare war)
now that I know them to be.
Help me see with clear eyes the youth that once I knew..
(What if I can’t reverse this baldness)
My true nature was more alive then.
(What if I die without my pants on…)
BKBushman 3/30/2006
Hello new and beautiful day
(What if it rains later, should I take my umbrella?)
I walk your way in joy and peace,
(What if I walk into a puddle and catch cold?)
and cease my inner struggle
(I left something on the stove, I just know it)
towards the perfect me I think I’m supposed to be.
(What if they notice I cut myself shaving this morning?)
Write your story in my heart,
(I forgot to write my kid an excuse note again)
and may I start to hear the clearness
(What if his teacher thinks I’m the biggest flake)
of your simple ways.
Cleanse my days from
(What if she doesn’t show for lunch?)
the distractions I lose myself in.
(What if I leave my keys in the car again)
I begin to find the softness
(What if he didn’t let the dog out again)
in my inner being.
Now I will be seeing the moments of
(What if I misplaced the utility bills and they aren’t really paid?)
Inner peace
(What if that stupid man really does declare war)
now that I know them to be.
Help me see with clear eyes the youth that once I knew..
(What if I can’t reverse this baldness)
My true nature was more alive then.
(What if I die without my pants on…)
BKBushman 3/30/2006
The Night Life
I will begin by saying this essay was inspired by a fellow blogger who wrote about being sleepless, struggling with insomnia. I am up a few hours later reading her blog, and she got me thinking... out loud!
When I was young, I was a night person. My children are today. But I wasn't a night person to party... being a writer most of my life, the night was when the muses were out, and with the help of music, I was able to touch the infinite possiblities... to fly beyond the boundaries of our gravitational pull, and touch the sky. I was able to climb out of the whirling chaos of daily thinking, and worrying, and was able to let go of the beast that tries to suck our spiritual and emotional energies out of us... stress.
So I have a special affinity for the night time. I once read that the hours between 3 and 5 am are almost "magical" and I have had the opportunity to put that to the test many times. I still love the peace of the early morning. And when I do enter those magical hours in my concious state, I still feel the magic!
But I have had to learn to balance that with my daily needs of having to take care of job and family, and I have not always been successful. Lately I sleep pretty well, but I have always gotten up two or three times in the night (my thanks go out to the soda pop creators of the world and my deep passion for bubbly liquids!)
My blog friend talked about the difficulties of falling asleep that she has. How I can relate to that as well. Somedays you just wish you could flip a switch, and the brain noise would instantly shut off. I've got another very special friend that doesn't sleep most nights as well. Business troubles consume his mind most nights. I can relate there! I am self employed, and many are the nights devoted to how to catch that elusive dollar bill! If only I could figure an honest way to bill all the time I have worked on client's issues during the sleepless hours! (I understand lawyers have figured it out...)
I would suggest to my sleepless blog friend the wonders of drugs and alcohol, but she has been much smarter in her life and has avoided those pitfalls! She'll never know the joy of waking up beside the toilet and not remembering how you got there!
So do I have an answer for her? I know what has worked for me, but we each walk life a little differently, and I don't know if my remedies would be of much value! But some years ago, I began simple meditation. I'm not talking about the Hollywood version of meditation... lots of chants and candles and sitting weird and mumbling. I'm talking about simply focusing on stilling the muscles of the body first, and "letting go" of thoughts. Like anything, it takes practice. When we are used to letting the mind go hither and yon around our brain pans, it takes a great deal of patience to open some kind of window in the head and let the thoughts go out of that instead of bouncing around in the space between our ears!
I have always been a very abstract thinker, and am very good at visualization. These are tools I can use to help me "let go" of the daily grind. My favorite vision with letting go of thoughts is to see them as clouds drifting away... being a sky person, this is the easiest visualization for me! I have written many peices about "inner peace." Most of us are so caught up in this life that we don't even know how to begin the search. My first steps toward success was to "let go" of the media. Talk about shoving stress down our throats! But I also have had to learn to "let go" of those things that most consume my thinking... at least for a little while. To realize that everything we think today is absolutely important and has to get done will be meaningless a year from now helps me gain perspective, and helps me cling less to todays thoughts... at least in the moment. And it is the moment that is all we are ever given to live in, if you think about it!
My friend talked about living the past and the future and today all at once, and all the time! That's a lot of thoughts to be cycling through in any given moment, and I'm sure all of us relate to how that works! Computer speeds are nothing compared to the speed of this marvelous brain we each have! We can worry over a lot of stuff in a matter of moments somedays! The trick that has worked for me is to realize I can shut off all noise... for one second. With a little practice, I can then shut off the noise for 2 seconds.
And once you get a feel for "hearing silence..." a whole new world opens up...
More on that later!
When I was young, I was a night person. My children are today. But I wasn't a night person to party... being a writer most of my life, the night was when the muses were out, and with the help of music, I was able to touch the infinite possiblities... to fly beyond the boundaries of our gravitational pull, and touch the sky. I was able to climb out of the whirling chaos of daily thinking, and worrying, and was able to let go of the beast that tries to suck our spiritual and emotional energies out of us... stress.
So I have a special affinity for the night time. I once read that the hours between 3 and 5 am are almost "magical" and I have had the opportunity to put that to the test many times. I still love the peace of the early morning. And when I do enter those magical hours in my concious state, I still feel the magic!
But I have had to learn to balance that with my daily needs of having to take care of job and family, and I have not always been successful. Lately I sleep pretty well, but I have always gotten up two or three times in the night (my thanks go out to the soda pop creators of the world and my deep passion for bubbly liquids!)
My blog friend talked about the difficulties of falling asleep that she has. How I can relate to that as well. Somedays you just wish you could flip a switch, and the brain noise would instantly shut off. I've got another very special friend that doesn't sleep most nights as well. Business troubles consume his mind most nights. I can relate there! I am self employed, and many are the nights devoted to how to catch that elusive dollar bill! If only I could figure an honest way to bill all the time I have worked on client's issues during the sleepless hours! (I understand lawyers have figured it out...)
I would suggest to my sleepless blog friend the wonders of drugs and alcohol, but she has been much smarter in her life and has avoided those pitfalls! She'll never know the joy of waking up beside the toilet and not remembering how you got there!
So do I have an answer for her? I know what has worked for me, but we each walk life a little differently, and I don't know if my remedies would be of much value! But some years ago, I began simple meditation. I'm not talking about the Hollywood version of meditation... lots of chants and candles and sitting weird and mumbling. I'm talking about simply focusing on stilling the muscles of the body first, and "letting go" of thoughts. Like anything, it takes practice. When we are used to letting the mind go hither and yon around our brain pans, it takes a great deal of patience to open some kind of window in the head and let the thoughts go out of that instead of bouncing around in the space between our ears!
I have always been a very abstract thinker, and am very good at visualization. These are tools I can use to help me "let go" of the daily grind. My favorite vision with letting go of thoughts is to see them as clouds drifting away... being a sky person, this is the easiest visualization for me! I have written many peices about "inner peace." Most of us are so caught up in this life that we don't even know how to begin the search. My first steps toward success was to "let go" of the media. Talk about shoving stress down our throats! But I also have had to learn to "let go" of those things that most consume my thinking... at least for a little while. To realize that everything we think today is absolutely important and has to get done will be meaningless a year from now helps me gain perspective, and helps me cling less to todays thoughts... at least in the moment. And it is the moment that is all we are ever given to live in, if you think about it!
My friend talked about living the past and the future and today all at once, and all the time! That's a lot of thoughts to be cycling through in any given moment, and I'm sure all of us relate to how that works! Computer speeds are nothing compared to the speed of this marvelous brain we each have! We can worry over a lot of stuff in a matter of moments somedays! The trick that has worked for me is to realize I can shut off all noise... for one second. With a little practice, I can then shut off the noise for 2 seconds.
And once you get a feel for "hearing silence..." a whole new world opens up...
More on that later!
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Family
"You can choose your friends, but not your family"
... the saying goes. Well, I couldn't have chosen better if I tried! That goes for the wonderful girl I have now spent 29 years with, and the three kids that have come into our circle! Our baby is about to turn 20, and the years have flown! I am honored to be in their lives, and they tolerate me the best they can!
(It's a good thing our girls love beards! Us guys are afraid of razors!)
... the saying goes. Well, I couldn't have chosen better if I tried! That goes for the wonderful girl I have now spent 29 years with, and the three kids that have come into our circle! Our baby is about to turn 20, and the years have flown! I am honored to be in their lives, and they tolerate me the best they can!
(It's a good thing our girls love beards! Us guys are afraid of razors!)
Saturday, July 19, 2008
A Thought of Love to my fellow earth travelers…
Transcending time and space,
I found my place
(in one moment)
as eternal soul.
Never ending…
never beginning,
winning sometimes,
and other times losing,
but always on a journey…
The Journey that Soul walks.
In despair I found myself
in depths of pain I did not want
(but had called myself to…)
and through never ending agony
I finally realized
that pain ends
when I shift my heart and thought
to other ways.
Now days of Joy have come my way.
It is hard to say why, sometimes,
to the mortal being
I typically try to cling to…
My rational brain doesn’t grasp
that I am the miracle,
that I am the creator,
that as a person thinks,
so we become.
So I thought of love,
no, of Love…
and watched my world change around me
even as I had fallen,
I had drawn myself to healing,
and searching to thank the angels…
I suddenly saw them
in the eyes of those around me.
In the living, walking souls
that I share life with day to day.
In small ways they
echo the thoughts
that I dwell upon…
unfailingly
they reflect to me
the energy of my own love or hate.
In despair of thought
I brought despair around me…
In joy of life,
I brought life’s Joys to me.
Thank you for being,
each of you,
a reflection of the Joys of my heart
and the miracles of my growing.
BKBushman 4-20-2007
Transcending time and space,
I found my place
(in one moment)
as eternal soul.
Never ending…
never beginning,
winning sometimes,
and other times losing,
but always on a journey…
The Journey that Soul walks.
In despair I found myself
in depths of pain I did not want
(but had called myself to…)
and through never ending agony
I finally realized
that pain ends
when I shift my heart and thought
to other ways.
Now days of Joy have come my way.
It is hard to say why, sometimes,
to the mortal being
I typically try to cling to…
My rational brain doesn’t grasp
that I am the miracle,
that I am the creator,
that as a person thinks,
so we become.
So I thought of love,
no, of Love…
and watched my world change around me
even as I had fallen,
I had drawn myself to healing,
and searching to thank the angels…
I suddenly saw them
in the eyes of those around me.
In the living, walking souls
that I share life with day to day.
In small ways they
echo the thoughts
that I dwell upon…
unfailingly
they reflect to me
the energy of my own love or hate.
In despair of thought
I brought despair around me…
In joy of life,
I brought life’s Joys to me.
Thank you for being,
each of you,
a reflection of the Joys of my heart
and the miracles of my growing.
BKBushman 4-20-2007
Friday, July 18, 2008
Initiation
Oh my gosh... a blog.
How does one approach such a thing? I have been writing for over thirty years, and I find myself entering a universe unimagined in all my sci-fi dreams! I can put myself out there... finally!
And have no one to edit me? Oh my gosh...
Well... here goes...
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