Author: S R Janssen

KICKING THE TIRES OF MAY 15, 2019

S R Janssen
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It’s a rollercoaster of ups and downs; yet, I am definitely improving my practice of releasing resistance. Now, I recognize that fatigue is often the result of resistance rather than the expenditure of energy with activity.

I sense from scraps of experience that the benefit of aging is that diminishment of youthful power and energy forces us to change our focus from relying upon ourselves to relying upon a greater power: that I think of as universal power. The same power that keeps the sun rising in the morning and the galaxies expanding.

As we age we may have one crucial choice to make each day: release resistance to allow the flow of universal energy, or shore up our resistance and move forward fueled with only a trickle of life force.

KICKING THE TIRES OF MAY 14 2019

S R Janssen
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Changing Habits

Doing What I Don’t Want to Do

Caught myself blaming circumstances for not accomplishing what I want to accomplish. As the old saying goes “point one finger at others, and four are pointing back to yourself.”

I Have Met the Enemy

In the words of Pogo, “I have met the enemy and he is us.” In my case, I have met the enemy and it is me. G.’s needs are not preventing me from anything. The domestic needs of the home are not preventing me from anything. What holds me back is my resistance from plunging both hands into the core of the activity I want to accomplish. I dance around it, and build up to the spirit of doing it (which never happens.) Simply put, it is resistance.

Accomplishment

I added words to my novel: not a thousand, but some. I did some cleaning, I framed and tarped my tomatoes. I really waste time and energy with negative thoughts. It’s a far, far better thing to have no thoughts at all.