Friday, February 9, 2018

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Sometimes having a simple but well-made tool can make all the difference in

making our jewelry creation easy and enjoyable. Today I have a review for you

of a tool that was sent to me by the folks at speedy jig, it's intended for making

paracord bracelets which is great if you're looking for gifts for guys, but

I've got ideas for using it lots of different ways.

Hi there, Sandy here, welcome to another Friday findings video at

keepsakecrafts.net. So the folks at speedy jig contacted me and asked if I'd

be interested in checking out one of their jigs for making paracord jewelry

and I'm always looking for an opportunity to make jewelry for guys

because it's one of those things that we don't do very often and it can be tough

to find those kinds of designs. This is actually a bracelet I made with the kit

and let me show you how it works. So you get this, which will not all fit. I asked

for the XL, the longer one, because I had ideas of making wrapped bracelets and

with this length I could actually make one that wraps three times around your

average woman's size wrist. Also being this long you could use this to make

necklaces and I love the way this adjusts so that you can use it to make

any length that suits you and for those designs that need to be held under

tension while you're making them it's just really helpful. So what you get is

the jig and it's quite heavy, it's nice, it's got rubber feet on the four corners,

it's got a wide base so that it's stable and doesn't move about, and like I said

it's some pretty heavy-duty thick sheet metal as you can see, so it's nice and

solid. You get the jig which is adjustable, you also get ten feet each of

three different colors of paracord and four clasps which I thought was a

mistake but then when I read more carefully

I realized that that's by design. You also get a book of instructions which I

found a little confusing to begin with. I had to go online, I found a YouTube video

explaining how to make a cobra knot bracelet which is what this is, I then

found an Instructable

and then it wasn't until I looked at the speedy jig website that I figured out

something that was perplexing to me. So the way this works is the first thing

you need to do is take a measurement of the wrist you want to fit, guys' wrists

tend to be around eight inches where women's average is 7 but of course like

everything they vary so if you can get a measurement that would be best.

Then you set your speedy jig according to the directions. Now remember when I've

talked to you about sizing bracelets that the thicker the bracelet the longer

you need to make it, and this has quite a bit of thickness which, so it makes sense

that they say if you want to make a bracelet for a 7 inch wrist you need to

make it 8 inches long, and then you adjust your jig for the length that you

want and you just loosen this wing nut and then it slides. So it says for an 8

inch bracelet slide the tab to the 8 inch ruler mark. I was a little

confused by this because their picture looks different from mine, theirs has an

extra bump so I wasn't quite sure where to put it, and if that happens to you a

better thing to do is to measure from here to here and once you get your

bracelet on there with the clasps you'll see better where you need to measure. The

next thing they tell you to do is to attach, is to take one of your buckles

and separate it and put one end over one side

and over the other, and actually yeah, do it, they kind of have a bend so if you do

it with the bend facing down because these tabs are angled it will make the

pieces be somewhat parallel to the work area, and then you set this aside and get

ready your cord, and they tell you you will need about 12 inches of cord for

every inch of bracelet. Now this was the part that confused me. What you're going

to do is actually choose a different buckle, this is just an anchor buckle, it

isn't the one that you're going to use in your bracelet, and that made all the

difference because it totally confused me because if you put it in the female

and if you put your loop in the female end... and I'll get back to this in

a minute, if you put it over the female end it did have room for this thick

paracord and for it to fit over the slot, but if you put it over the male end it

won't stay and then I realized what they were telling you to do is actually use a

different one to attach. So that goes on there like that and this is just a

temporary holder. So now that makes a whole lot more sense. The yellow one it's

just there to hold your cord in place, and then you fold your cord in half,

slip it through one of the loops of your clasp and then slip the ends through,

just like you saw me do a minute ago, and pull it snug, that's called a lark's

head knot, then you slip your other two ends through your other part of the

clasp, and if you need to, if it's fraying like crazy you can take your lighter and

burn the end.

That's going to behave a little better now. So you want to put both those ends

through the other side of your clasp, the one you'll be using, not the anchor clasp,

make sure those are both angled the same way. Okay, now we can attach this to the

other clasp and now you can get an accurate measurement. So if I say I want

to make a 7 1/4 inch bracelet, I want to measure from this part of the clasp all

the way up to where it will meet this part of the clasp, which will be right

here at this edge because this is going to buckle into this, so now I can slide

that, so that's right about seven and a quarter and if you look at the jig it

looks like it's about a quarter of an inch off from the measurement here, but

this gives you some place to start. So let's double check that, let's see from

there to where it's going to end here, yeah, seven and a quarter from here. You

can start making your Cobra knot. I'm just going to turn this around... and this is where having the

jig is really nice. I have this leaning up against the back wall of my recording

booth and this is actually really nice Now one of the videos I watched online

he didn't use a jig at all, he did this exact same thing he didn't need an

anchor clasp but I thought it was really nice doing it under tension, so I'm gonna

remember right. I'll take the right one, go over your two

core cords, that's what these are, over, take your other one go over that, under

the core, and up and through, and then pull, and then repeat with the left, over

the core, over that one, under the core and up and through, and that's all there is

to it. So that was left, right, left, right,

and that's it that's all there is to it. There are lots of other designs out

there for you to do, I really enjoyed doing this one with the two colors. I'll

have a link in the description box to the instructables I followed the

directions for making this. I liked doing the two colors because you always use the

same one, so it was always red because it switches sides, and I do tend to mix up

my left and my right. I read somewhere that it's folks who have a strong right-

left brain connection that mix up their right and left and so that's my story

and I'm sticking with it! I'm not sure if I did that right... you can see

once you get going and you can make one of these bracelets in just a few minutes.

If this is something you enjoy doing this kind of knotting, making bracelets,

necklaces, keychains, all sorts of things, you might find the jig helpful. Is it

necessary? No, not a hundred percent necessary. But is it handy? Yes. I saw the

retail price was listed as $40 and discounted to $30 so I'm thinking

$30 is probably around the average price you'll pay, maybe a little pricey.

You could buy the smaller one if you're only going to make smaller items. Could

you do something very similar with a bulldog clip? Yes, but if this is

something you enjoy making it might be handy. And be watching next week when I'm

going to show you how to make one of those very popular wrap style bracelets

using this and I think that's when this will really be handy. I hope that you

found this helpful and interesting and inspiring and don't forget Valentine's

Day is coming up so a nice survival piece of jewelry might be something

great for the guys in your life. If you're interested in the supplies, click

on the little "i" or the tag in the upper right to go to my blog post,

there's also a link in the description box, and at my blog post I always have a

complete supply list with links to products. Be sure to subscribe if you

haven't already and if you'd like bonus tutorials every month take a look at my

Patreon page. Happy creating, bye bye.

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Haldir!

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Haldir!

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Meditation and Deep Time Accessing Your Anchored Self - Duration: 27:51.

Meditation and Deep Time Accessing Your Anchored Self

From the Law of One, Ra mentions several times about the importance of silence, the contemplative

mind, and right use of intention in order to see more clearly and be more who we are:

the Infinite Creator. In our current world situation we find ourselves in the Great Shifting.

In the most macro sense, this is the shift from the 3rd density to the 4th density. Included

in that shift are all the heaps of changes and confluences happening as humanity deals

with our collective shadow and our individual shadows. Though it is attractive to think

about all of the hidden technologies that may be released during the course of the Shifting,

we must make ourselves ready to handle such newness. If our consciousness awareness is

still dualistic, then no real freedom will be had. Freedom to be our egos is not freedom

at all!

This is also true for how we deal with learning about the crimes against humanity and the

negative�s agenda(s) for thousands of years. Restorative justice will not even be possible

if we approach the truths with dualist minds. We will just continue operating with some

level of retributive justice and this will keep us trapped right in our lower three chakras�both

collectively and individually. Do we want 4th density to come? Are we in an advent of

sorts, longing for the New Earth? Then we better get ready for the nitty gritty work

of looking inside and seeing where we, as individuals, are mired in the muck. Where

is the way out? While removing entity attachments, esoteric knowledge, knowing our astrological

origins, rituals, etc, all can help, they are secondary to learning how to surrender

to the now, in the silencing of the mind, and connecting with our Source in darkness

and no-thingness of union with Infinity.

In meditative practices there are two kinds of approaches: Apophatic (releasing of thoughts,

images, and mind-processes) and Kataphatic (spiritual imagery, dialogs with guides, angelics,

higher selves, astral travel, etc). You don�t have to remember those fancy words but the

trajectories of the approaches are important to consider. Both the apophatic and kataphatic

are need for a robust spiritual development. They are the stuff of the higher chakras,

higher inner planes, and higher densities.

Yet, in all of the great spiritual traditions of the world, there has always been the wisdom

that the apophatic way must be learned first and is primary. The apophatic way allows us

to move through the levels of awareness while the kataphatic way is like getting out of

the apophatic elevator and exploring a particular floor. Have you ever known people who may

be very gifted at energy work, astral travel, etc, but you are surprised at how dualistic

their thinking still is? I sure have. This is why we as a collective need to learn how

to adopt some form of contemplative practice. And there are many kinds!!!

Ra does not make any recommendation as to which to adopt, but they do invite us to adopt

one that works for us, personally. With your permission, I will express an approach that

has worked for thousands of people, including myself. The following is an exploration of

what is known as Centering Prayer. It is super easy and very demanding, at the same time.

But after exploring different meditative practices for years, I have found a home.

In my admittedly subjective opinion, the practice of Centering Prayer is one of the greatest

practices to help us learn how to be more fully awake and enjoy life in abundance. In

this article, we will see how Centering Prayer can help us drop down into our True Self,

what I call the Anchored Self, and from there, enjoy a more centered sense of being that

can interface with reality enjoying higher levels of joy, thankfulness, effectiveness,

and discernment.

What is the Anchored Self?

The Anchored Self is your True Self. It is who you really are and have always been. Finding

our Anchored Self is not about achieving some high level of private morality but rather

it is about awakening more and more to who you already are. It feels like no-thing because

it is not defined by external validations or wounds. It is unwoundable because it is

radically (radius=roots)

Some people have never had much more than a glimpse of their Anchored Selves as they

continually seek ways to fill the voids through addictions and addictive thinking patterns.

Most people do, indeed, experience their Anchored Self but do not live from there on a regular

basis. A small minority have found the Pearl of Great Price and operate in the world with

a palatable wholeness and ontological security. These people live surrendered lives of thanksgiving.

They are humble, gracious, and possess great equanimity.

The great goal and purpose in our lives is to learn how to more and more embody the Anchored

Self and use the Floating Self to do good in the world. There will be our dance between

the two Selves but if we listen well to our great sufferings and our great loves, then

we become real leaven for the collective good. We become more fully to that which we already

are: Logo�s Body on Earth.

What is the Floating Self?

The Floating Self is our False Self. It is not the bad self and we do not need to demonize

it. It is the self to which we are attached especially in terms of our image that we want

to project for others to see. I am smart, I am attractive, I am successful, I am liked,

I am holy, or I am stupid, I am ugly, I am despised, I am unworthy�these are examples

of the Floating Self�s jostling around in the winds of the emotions of the day. The

Floating Self is the egoic self and often takes offense or feels the need to defend

itself. It is inherently dualistic and strips everything FS, AS, arrowdown to binary choices,

and then creates the illusion that we have to pick one of them.

Although I said that the Floating Self is not bad, I do want to state that it is dangerous

if that is the only self we know. We can achieve high success, have doctorates and be experts

in areas, and still be living almost entirely from our Floating Selves. Head knowledge is

not nearly as valuable as gnosis, or lived knowing based on experience.

When St. Paul speaks about the need to die to the flesh, most of us have interpreted

him to mean that body, and its needs, are evil, coarse, and something to avoid or see

as shameful. Instead, St. Paul was using his own word, �sarx,� for what we are calling

the Floating Self. That is what needs to die to its importance, its need for recognition,

its need for instant gratification. Learning how to die daily (sometimes, moment by moment)

to the Floating Self�s neediness is how we �rise� in our Anchored Self, more and

more. You see, the great pattern of life�what was archetypally revealed in journey of Jesus

in his dying and rising�is something that is always prevalent our own lives. When you

have the eyes to see this, you will see it everywhere and all the of the time in daily

life. That�s when faith really gets real, personal, corporate, and transformative. Ra

speaks to this exact same archetype in two pithy statements:

94.26 �All things in manifestation may be seen in one way or another to be offering

themselves in order that transformations may take place upon the level appropriate to the

action.� [note: dying=offering, rising=transformations] 93.24 �Thus the crux ansata (crucifixion

or ankh) is intended to be seen as an image of the eternal in and through manifestation

and beyond manifestation through the sacrifice and transformation of that which is manifest.�

[note: dying=sacrifice (to make holy through self-offering); rising=transformation of that

which is manifest] Wholeness and Holiness

The Floating Self, believe it or not, actually becomes our greatest teacher in our lives.

As Psalm 51:3 admits, �My sin is ever before me.� When we live from our Floating Selves,

we are living in a disconnected way apart from our ground of being. In this illusion

of separation, which feels so real when we are caught up in its drama, we miss the mark

(�hamartano�, Greek for �sin�) of staying in alignment with the Source of our

Anchored Selves, the Infinite Creator.

However, when we can catch ourselves in the act of living out from our Floating Self,

we mindfully witness what is going on, and then we can better handle the tension of the

moment without needing to immediately judge and critique it. By falling down into our

Anchored Selves, we enter the field of wholeness�and the luminosity of wholeness naturally lends

itself to clarifying a path of holiness. I�m not saying that Anchored Self people do not

miss the mark AS, FS, generativefrom time to time, for to err is human. However, there

won�t be much lag time before recognition of our hurtful or harmful actions or thought

processes. We catch ourselves in the middle of the act and then surrender. And that makes

all of the difference.

What brings us down into our Anchored Selves is Great Love and Great Suffering. These are

two things that crack the Floating Self�s dualistic lens of viewing reality so that

the light of possibilities and hope can shine through (as Leonard Cohen pinned, �There�s

a crack in everything/ that�s how the light gets in.�) Great Love is defined as those

moments of life that fill us with such awe, wonder, and fascination that we are perplexed

into attraction for the source of such delights. This opens us up. Great Suffering can be specific

crucifixions or less intense daily struggles. Either way, the telltale sign of suffering

is when we feel powerless to change it.

Great Love and Great Suffering lead us to moments of what is known as jamais vu. You

have often heard of deja vu, or the experience of having had this moment before. Jamais vu

is just the opposite. It is coming face to face with a totally new kind of life-experience

that is unfamiliar to us. These are those moments that we recall later in life as being

foundational in affirming our life�s course, or changing it. When we listen well to the

jamias-vu-moments of our lives, then our Floating Selves are pulled down, tamed, by our Anchored

Selves, and then used to do good in the world. You see, we don�t get rid of, kill, or eradicate

our Floating Selves. We listen and learn its games and then compassionately reign it and

use it to be our �canary in the cave,� signaling us on how we can intentionally engage

with our environs grounded in compassion and wisdom. This is one of the greatest ways that

we can allow the Logos, through our Anchored Selves, flowing into our Floating Selves,

to bring living water to a thirsty world. That�s wholeness� and that�s holiness.

Chronos and Kairos: Encountering Deep Time

Another angle of understanding our Floating Selves and Anchored Selves is to relate how

they experience the phenomenon of time. Our Floating Selves correspond more to chronos,

chronological time. It is in tune with the linear passage of time but note well that

the Floating Self is never conscious of the present moment. Its attention is trained towards

the glorious and/or horrible past, or fantasizes about and/or dreads the future. The Floating

Self is that self which feels anxiety and angst and the more we feel pressed, hemmed

in, by the chaotic energy of these things, the more we are ensconced into our Floating

Selves.

In contrast, our Anchored Self experiences the eternal present moment and pays attention

to kairos. Kairos is deep time, or those moments of jaimas vu. From the spaciousness and clarity

of Anchored Self embodying, we are able to see how everything in its own way belongs

and we live lives of gratitude�even when we pass through difficult life-situations.

We can do this because we have come to trust that after everyt death, there is always more

abundant life.

The following is taken from an interview between Krista Tippet and the late Irish poet, John

O�Donahue for the NPR radio program, On Being

Ms. Tippett: You wrote about time, �Possibility is the secret heart of time. On its outer

surface, time is vulnerable to transience. In its deeper heart, time is transfiguration.�

I wonder how you are able to have � I don�t know � I think a larger sense of time, because

of � as an inheritor of the Celtic tradition.

Mr. O�Donohue: Yeah, I think that�s a bit of it, that old Celtic thing, because

I mean there is, in Ireland, still � even though it�s getting consumerized so fast

� there is still, in the West of Ireland where I live, a sense of time, that there�s

time for things, and that when God made time, he made plenty of it, and all the rest of

it. And you see, I think that one of the huge difficulties in modern life is the way time

has become the enemy.

Ms. Tippett: Time is a bully. We are captive to it.

Mr. O�Donohue: Totally, and I�d say seven out of every ten people who turn up in a doctor�s

surgery are suffering from something stress-related. Now there are big psychological tomes written

on stress, but for me, philosophically, stress is a perverted relationship to time, so that

rather than being a subject of your own time, you have become its target and victim, and

time has become routine. So at the end of the day, you probably haven�t had a true

moment for yourself to relax in and to just be.

Meister Eckhart, whom I love, said, �So many people come to me asking how I should

pray, how I should think, what I should do. And the whole time, they neglect the most

important question, which is, how should I be?� And I think when you slow it down,

then you find your rhythm. And when you come into rhythm, then you come into a different

kind of time. Because you know the way, in this country, there�s all the different

zones � I think there are these zones within us, as well. There�s surface time, which

is really a rapid-fire Ferrari time.

Ms. Tippett: And over-structured.

Mr. O�Donohue: Yeah, over-structured, like, and stolen from you, thieved all the time.

And then if you slip down � like Dan Siegel, my friend, does this lovely meditation. You

imagine the surface of the ocean is all restless, and then you slip down deep below the surface

where it�s still and where things move slower.

Ms. Tippett: So I�m assuming you would suggest that more people need to create more space

and stillness, but I think what you�re also saying is that simply by thinking differently

about time, by approaching it differently, by putting on a new imagination, we can have

a different sense of it. Is that right?

Mr. O�Donohue: That�s absolutely right, because I think that if you take time not

as calendar product, but as actually the parent or mother of presence, then you see that in

the world of spirit, time behaves differently, actually. I mean when I used to be a priest,

it was an amazing thing � you�d see somebody who would be dying over a week, maybe, and

had lived, maybe, a hard life where they were knuckled into themselves, where they were

hard and tight and unyielding, and everything had to err in its way to their center. And

suddenly, then, you�d see that within three or four days you�d see them loosen. And

you�d see a kind of buried beauty that they�d never allowed themselves to enjoy about themselves

surface and bring a radiance to their face and spirit.

Ms. Tippett: And why did it surface then?

Mr. O�Donohue: Because suddenly, like, there was a recognition that the time was over and

that their way of being could no longer help them with this and that another way of being

was being invited from them, and when they yielded to it, it will become transformative.

And it just means that actually, when you change time levels, that something can transform

incredibly quickly.

I mean I always think that that�s the secret of change � that there are huge gestations

and fermentations going on in us that we are not even aware of. And then, sometimes, when

we come to a threshold, crossing over, which we need to become different, that we�ll

be able to be different, because secret work has been done in us, of which we�ve had

no inkling.

Ms. Tippett: And where did that work come from? Who directed that work? What is that?

Mr. O�Donohue: My suspicion would be � I can�t say who directed that work. But my

suspicion is that the soul choreographs one�s biography and one�s destiny.

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Just a quick word in summary. O�Donohue ends this segment with suspecting that the

soul choreographs the movement of our lives. This beautifully captures the silent and hidden

work of our Anchored Selves. The Logos, in communion with our Anchored Selves, gives

us the music for our brief dance upon this planet, which Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, calls

the �school of union.�

Cleaning our Lens, Expanding the View: Centering Prayer and Metanoia

Centering Prayer invites people in a way that is very efficacious into the heart of what

people call the contemplative life. It is an amazing practice that is akin to putting

a stick in the spokes of the obsessive-compulsive tendency of the mind that keeps our being

in agitation and outwardly focused. The mind�s tendency to manufacture constant thoughts

can keep us locked into our Floating Self.

What makes Center Prayer innovative within the family of meditations is that it doesn�t

operate from focusing on a mantra or breathing, which are themselves, kinds of thinking. Instead,

Centering Prayer recognizes that thinking is just part of our human mind and how it

operates in the world. Through pushing away, or resisting, our thoughts via a mantra or

breathing, we can inadvertently energize those very thoughts that may hook us in the moment

or come back when we are not expecting them.

Centering Prayer gives a very simple method of releasing thinking when it comes, as it

comes. A thought is anything that brings our attention to a focal point. This could be

a powerful vision, the answer to a long-sought cosmic question, what is for dinner tonight,

or an itch on your nose. The instruction in Centering Prayer is just to let it go. Simply

open your �hand� that has its grip on the thought and let it go. This is not a resistance

to the thought, but a soft acknowledging that it is there and then a releasing of it.

Centering Prayer is a pathway of return and an opening to something deeper. The work is

done there, in the depths. It is based in the understanding of kenosis, or self-emptying

(Philippians 2:6-7) where we do not cling to things but empty ourselves with the intention

of union with the divine (see Theosis, Divinization, or ��full participation in divinity which

is humankind�s true beatitude and the destiny of human life�� Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

3.1.2). It is in solidarity with the heart of all major spiritual traditions which is

the �putting on the mind of the Logos� (example: 1Corinthians 2:13-16). With this

mind of the Logos, we �get out of the way� through surrendering and unite ourselves with

God�s own triune Selfhood. We get caught up in the very flow of the inner dance, the

perichoresis, of the Infinite Creator�s inner life. [note: the inner dance=how Free

Will, Love, and Light interplay in delight and pleasure in self-creating, infinitely.]

Neurologically, there are some very interesting things that happen, too. When we move from

fixation on our thoughts, there is a drop that is indeed measurable in our body-felt

sense. We drop into our Anchored Self. This physiological phenomena of dropping down into

a more spacious place is akin to what the Christian stripe of the Perennial Tradition

has called, �putting the mind in the heart, � so that the mind and the heart become

one organ of perception, of relating, of being in the world. The practice of putting the

mind in the heart is the key to practicing compassion in our daily lives in a way that

moves beyond ego identification.

Centering Prayer is �boot camp� in mediation form to putting on the mind of the Logos that

rearranges our neurology and our theology of perception and we begin to see the world

with the eyes of Infinite Creator (ref. Galatians 2:20). Through the practice of Centering Prayer,

we become adept at letting go to the moment�s opportunities (self-emptying, or kenosis)

and thus become more crystalized instruments of peace and light in the world.

Intention and the Sacred Word

In Centering Prayer, attention is not the big issue. Rather, it is intention! Our intention

carries the weight of how we do this practice. How intention generally works, and this is

individually based, is one in which we find a word that brings us to being fully receptive

to God in the stillness of the now. Using a word, that acts a lot like a windshield

wiper, is not the same saying a mantra. Instead, the sacred word returns us back to center,

to the place of being present to Presence. You will �lock in,� as it were, to a spaciousness

in a way that two magnets attract each other and forge a union.

Then, when (notice I didn�t say, �if�) a thought comes a�knockin� to grab your

attention, you wipe it away by repeating your sacred word, and turn your intention back

to being present. Here. Now.

It is recommended to practice Centering Prayer a minimum of 20 minutes a day.

Benefits of Centering Prayer

Doing Centering Prayer in a committed way is like receiving divine therapy. Obsessions,

worries, anxieties, grudges, jealousies, and griefs begin to loose their grip on our minds

and hearts. We learn to live life in a surrendered way to a power greater than our own. Paradoxically,

as we learn to surrender ourselves to the Infinite Creator�s will, we actually become

more ourselves than ever before. We can become more present and intentional in our daily

lives, freer to live life in a flow that is ever more efficient and fresh than one we

could create.

Centering Prayer is a tool par excellence for profound metanoia. Metanoia means �change

of mind and heart.� It denotes an enlarging of vision and knowing that moves us from dualistic

thinking to more nondual awareness. From this more spacious place of seeing, being, and

knowing, we can approach topics of interest or urgency with a new ability to discern paths

beyond the dichotomies of either/or, right/wrong, good/bad, Republican/Democrat, �Awakened�/�Sleeping�,

etc. We can also engage other people with a freshness that is freer from our common

patterns of labeling, judging, agreeing with, or dismissing. In short, Centering Prayer

is medicine for the soul that serves to awaken us up to the Logos� presence in every situation.

We gain the sight and experience the joy that St. Paul experienced when he intuited, �There

is only [the Logos]: [It] is everything and [It] is in everything� (Colossians 3:11).

Welcoming Prayer: Centering Prayer�s Companion

When we are not �on the mat� doing our Centering Prayer, there is a way to bring

the same intensity of acceptance and detachment to our daily lives. A companion prayer�and

one could argue that it�s more of a way of life�is to practice the Welcoming Prayer

developed by Centering Prayer pioneer and Trappist monk, Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO.

The Welcoming Prayer (by Father Thomas Keating) Welcome, welcome, welcome.

I welcome everything that comes to me today because I know it�s for my healing.

I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons,

situations, and conditions. I let go of my desire for power and control.

I let go of my desire for affection, esteem, approval and pleasure.

I let go of my desire for survival and security. I let go of my desire to change any situation,

condition, person or myself. I open to the love and presence of God and

God�s action within. Amen.

One of his primary students and a first-rate spiritual master in her own right, Cynthia

Bourgeault, brings clarity to the Welcoming Prayer in her wonderful book, The Heart of

Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice:

Rather, it is better formulated as �By the power of the Divine Indwelling active within

me, I unconditionally embrace this moment, no matter its physical or psychological content.�

And by this same indwelling strength, once inner wholeness is restored, I then choose

how to deal with the outer situation, be it by acceptance or by spirited resistance. If

the latter course is chosen, the actions taken�reflecting that higher coherence of witnessing presence�will

have a greater effectiveness, bearing the right force and appropriate timing that Buddhist

teaching classically designates as �skillful means.�

When we engage what we consider as situations of struggle or conflict through �skillful

means,� we are most definitely operating from our Anchored Selves. Every moment in

our lives is a catalyst that offers us an opportunity to approach it with love and wisdom

or with constriction and exclusion. Centering Prayer and the Welcoming Prayer give us a

contemplative mind, which �does not tell us what to see, but teaches us how to see

what we behold.� Centering Prayer can truly and intensely help us fulfill poet William

Blake�s powerful insight: If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would

appear to [us] as it is, infinite.* And that kind of loving and seeing in the world is

the fruit of Anchored Self living.

*William Blake, �The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,� The Complete Poems, ed. Alicia

Ostriker (Penguin Classics: 1977), 188.

Centering Prayer Guidelines

1. Choose a sacred word as the symbol of your intention to consent to God�s presence and

action within.

2. Sitting comfortably and with eyes closed, settle briefly and silently introduce the

sacred word as the symbol of your consent to God�s presence and action within.

3. When engaged with your thoughts, return ever-so-gently to the sacred word.

4. At the end of the prayer period, remain in silence with eyes closed for a couple of

minutes

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VIDIEK | COUNTRYSIDE - Duration: 3:31.

I see the basic difference between Bratislava and Šenkvice in silence.

In Bratislava it is a nonstop pulse.

Here it goes otherwise.

We do not need to go out of this house.

You can be here, but you do not have to do anything standard.

Well, you're smart

You can.

Our family is a little unusual.

So a regular weekend for us does not exist.

No weekend is normal.

We can also plan a lot of things and try to live normally, but it does not do us any good any way.

We have a house on a hill. Others have it down hill.

The first thing is best for me. So the family had to adapt, but I think they did not mind it so.

I have neighbours who are down hill and I'm living up here.

That is, I do not have those interpersonal relationships when I do not want them, so I do not have them.

When I need company, I descend the hill and can communicate.

The view is fine, but in winter I really do not want to walk up the stairs.

In the snow or take out the snow. Or wear wood.

Or just rise up the stairs

Getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to be at school at 7:30.

I do not really want to.

Once in an hour, the train to Bratislava comes whether I can catch it or not.

It will not wait for me.

While a car …

From my point of view, Šenkvice is safer than Pezinok, Bratislava, or any small town.

People get to know each other.

When a child begins to smoke, the entire village knows.

There is simply a community of kids, for example, on this street who are visiting each other.

So it's enough for me to shout: "Šarlota home!" in the summer, and my classmate's mother is screaming: "Lotka is with us, I already send her."

This is a completely different way of life than in Bratislava.

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Causeway!

Is this it?

Is this is all you can conjure, Saruman?

Brace the gate!

Hold them! Stand firm!

Aragorn!

Gimli!

The Ents cannot hold back this storm.

We must weather such things as we have always done.

How can that be your decision?!

This is not our war.

But you're part of this world!

Aren't you?!

You must help. Please.

You must do something.

You are young and brave, Master Merry.

But your part in this tale is over.

Go back to your home.

Maybe Treebeard's right.

We don't belong here, Merry.

It's too big for us.

What can we do in the end?

We've got the Shire.

Maybe we should go home.

The fires of Isengard will spread...

...and the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn.

And...

And all that was once green and good in this world will be gone.

There won't be a Shire, Pippin.

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How To Setup Alerts In Etrade Pro - Duration: 3:00.

hey guys what up Casey here from the Millennial millionaire challenge and today I'm

gonna be continuing my how to use etrade pro series today it's gonna be another

short video and it's simply going to be how to set up alerts on stocks within

etrade Pro platforms so as we can see there's no easy way that just shows your

alerts there is if you go to tools and alerts box when you click this you could

type in your symbol right here at it let's delete the old one that I have

right there but we type in T VIX we click Add okay all right so they click

this then we click Add and then we can set up our alerts so this is the first

way to do it so if this were to hit let's say where we are in now eleven

dollars it will alert us we can there's all different types of settings that you

can do for this the volume when it's traded a certain amount of shares things

like that but I really just care about the price when it hits this price so

that's what I want to get in and that's that so when I when it hits eleven

dollars make sure this is clicked and it'll give me it'll pop up in a new

window and it's gonna say time to buy so you can also do it based on percentage

gains but anyway that's what's important to me it's already hit it so this is

gonna pop up and then after this after you click OK it's gonna tell you the

alert it's gonna tell you the price that it hit it and the price that you set and

then it's gonna give you your note right below it which is super convenient if

you're watching four or five different stocks this way you don't have to watch

it it'll just tell you when it happens you could use different types of orders

to automatically get you in when it crosses but I'll make videos on that in

the future for right now we just care about the alerts so that's the easiest

way and then here's the alerts that I've had it today and symbols pretty much

this doesn't really matter this is just the box it can't go in any of the

whatever this is called tile mode which is pretty disappointing

but if you want to have this open on a second screen or you can have this

closed out and the alert will pop up like it did before so you can clear this

pretty easily the other way to open up an alert is if you have a stock in your

watchlist you simply right-click on it send symbol 2 and down here at the

bottom you click alerts and boom you just click ad just like that now it's

here you click the price that you want it if you see how it's grayed out that

means it's already happened so if you want to do a fresh one so the next time

it hits one point eleven point one it'll do it that you have to make sure this

has a black background rather than this faded out one anyway that's pretty much

all that I can show you guys on alerts for today if you guys have any more

questions please feel free to leave a comment down below asking any questions

about the e-trade bro pro platform and i will do my best to get back to you guys

as quickly as possible and help you figure out this platform thanks guys

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Chloe Rowe - Athletic Profile - Duration: 3:51.

Hi, my name is Chloe Rowe.

I'm in the fitness and health promotion program, and I'm part of the varsity badminton team.

I started playing badminton at the age of 3.

My mom got me my first racket then, and we played in the backyard from 3 'til about the

age of 8.

My passion for badminton started because as a young child I loved sports.

I played all types of sports, and for some reason I was really good at playing badminton.

And me and my mom, I would force her to come outside and play with me in the backyard ten

times a day, and eventually she actually got tennis elbow because I made her play with me so much.

As competitions started, more and more of my family was paying attention with my badminton,

and they were following along with how I was doing and the results.

I was making them very happy with all of my commitment to the sport.

I felt very grateful for all that and it made me want to continue to work hard and train hard and

perform well in competitions so that's where the passion came from.

When I first came to college, it was a really big shock for me because the majority through

high school I got to focus on my sport a lot, but then as I came to college it was time

to really focus and put my interest into school.

As well I was playing on the varsity badminton team which was a great experience, but school

was the number one priority: doing well, and making my parents proud.

So the balancing was very hard for me because there came a time where I had to learn how

to balance a lot of school and less badminton, and it was hard because the majority of the

time, badminton was my outlet, where if I was stressed, or if I was having issues with

school, I'd go and I'd play badminton.

But now, I had to figure out a way to continue to push through the hard times of school with

a little bit of less badminton.

First year I tried to balance work, school, training, all that stuff, and it was really

hard because I was commuting about two hours back and forth from Markham to here, but coaching

was a really big passion of mine.

I enjoyed getting to pass on all of my knowledge to the younger students at our club.

So now I'm in my second year of school, and I've decided to put all my focus into my school

and less into my coaching, and once I'm finished, I'm going to immerse myself fully back in

to coaching.

One of the highlights of my badminton career was winning the Triple Crown at one of my very first

national tournaments.

I came first in women's singles, first in women's doubles, and first in mixed doubles.

My advice to up and coming students who as well are trying to balance everything with

school and work, would just be to try to enjoy your time as a student, because often times

we get stressed out and we forget about all of the good things that are happening.

And that happened to me in first year. It was a lot of stressing myself out with trying to balance

work and school and training.

I decided at some point that it was time to just stop stressing myself out and focus on

my school and enjoy it, because it makes it a much better experience for you.

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Nights are long since you went away

I think about you all through the day

My buddy

My buddy

Nobody quite so true

Miss your voice

The touch of your hand

Just long to know

That you understand

My buddy

My buddy

Your buddy misses you

My buddy

My buddy

Nobody quite

So true

My buddy

My buddy

Your buddy misses you

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F.CUZ drop a teaser image for comeback

CUZ drop a teaser image for comeback.   F.CUZ is making a comeback!   The group will be returning with a track called Beautiful Girl and to signal their comeback, they have released a quick teaser image that can be seen below.

They are dressed to match one another in pink jackets while posing for the camera in front of a light blue background. The last time they released new music was back in 2017 with a single album Love or Truth.

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