A block
I have a problem with things that have me stuck. I get really stuck. Blocked. Unable to move.
My lesson 19 power stories homework was one that had me a little stuck.
Possibly because it was
Whenever you have the impulse to do something “they” would think is ridiculous, try to recognize it as Whimsy and follow The Muse’s lead. This will helps you stretch your “listening-to-my-intuition” muscles, and allow you to practice saying “yes” to your internal guide.
So today your homework is Whimsy Practice. And here is present to help! A little snip, a little paste, and you’re ready to play a whole new game! Shuffle the cards and draw from their heart the assignment you need to re-acquaint yourself with Whimsy.
and I don’t really have a problem with doing whimsical things.
Educational Block M by Leo Reynolds
I loved the cards, and the things on them, but some of the things would just be totally impossible for me, or they’re things I already do. So I made the cards, and the box, and played with them for fun, and thought about the things on them, but I didn’t actually do anything with them then.
That was one.
The next lesson I am so totally stuck on that I can’t even get through it properly, and I have no idea why. Maybe I’m not a good listener, and it’s a podcast, but the homework is on the lesson page, in writing, so I could still do that if I printed that bit out and took it from there. But I haven’t. So I think I’m going to leave this one for now, and move on to the next, which is really difficult for me. But I can’t stay stuck for ever, and if I don’t do that, I will be. I think even that, actually is a bit of an achievement for me. To get unstuck by stepping over the block in my way.
Moving on. Lesson 20 homework requires the use of another person. I don’t have one of those at the moment, so I’ll have to come back to that one too. Sounds interesting though, about applied kinesiology, or muscle testing.
Lesson 21 homework
* Has there been a time when you knew -through intuition and/or through your own careful study - that you needed to take a specific course of action for you body? (A need for more sleep? Direction towards a certain kind of exercise? A medical treatment decision)
* How did you come to that place?
* What lessons can you take from the experience to help guide you into your future?
Alphabet Block m by Leo Reynolds
Very definitely I think our bodies guide us. One of the simplest and most obvious way they do this is with food cravings! Listen to your body, and take note of any food cravings and when you’re having them. How are you feeling, what is in the foods you’re craving? Is it a food particularly rich in a certain mineral or vitamin? I bet it is, and I bet if you looked up what a deficiency of it might cause you’d be feeling that to some degree.
Another way our own bodies tell us what is right is in childbirth, and too often we have our own feelings pushed aside in favour of what medical science wants to do. Thankfully this is changing, and a woman these days is a lot more likely to get a birth experience the way she wants it than I was when I had my daughter. I think we’re also more enlightened about what happens to our bodies during this process. The internet has given us a lot, and I think this one is a huge one for women.
My mother gave birth to my sister and brother at home. They were numbers 2 and 3. I was number 1, and my youngest brother, number 4 were both born in hospital. This was in England, between 1958 and 1968. I’m not sure what their home birthing numbers are like these days, but I do know that in Australia it’s almost impossible to have an attended homebirth. I wish I knew when I had my daughter what I know now, and I’m sure my birth experience would have been quite different.
Mm by Leo Reynolds
When they told me last year that I had breast cancer I wanted to find out all that I could, so that I could make decisions about what was going to happen to me.
Neil said he would just do whatever the doctors told him to do, if it were him. I doubt that. He’s more contrary than I am.
So I questioned everything, Neil and Jade came to the appointments with me, Jade took notes, and I came home and looked it up.
I mostly did what my doctor/surgeon said.
I said no to having “the wire” inserted with radioactive dye, since it would have meant going to a different building to get that done, and my anxiety would have gone through the roof to do that. The surgeon said that they don’t have enough information at this stage, to determine that it would give me any better chances. (that days journal)
I said no to a trial the oncologist wanted me to do. The possible side effects from that sounded ten times worse than chemo. I’m glad I didn’t do the trial. Chemo was horrible enough.
m by Leo Reynolds
If I’d known then what I know now, I’d have probably asked for a bilateral mastectomy. I know the surgeon would have said no. He thinks they’re mostly un-necessary. And medically, they probably are. He told my mother-in-law no, and just did a lumpectomy on her, but then after that she was so unhappy with him that she went to a different surgeon and had her bilateral mastectomy. I am still considering it, especially in light of the fact that they found one mass in my first mammogram since cancer, which they then couldn’t find in ultrasound, but in ultrasound, they found a different one. They’re both apparently fine. But I don’t need to worry about things like this. I want to be able to live my life without having to worry that my breasts are growing something that may kill me.
all the blocks are from Leo Reynolds, on flickr. and yes, technically the last one isn’t a block, but it’s a nem, so I had to include that one.
and, I just realised that down here, at the bottom of the page, the link to the previous post says “a letter”. ha.
Originally published at The Onion
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