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Ina and everyone -

I just returned home from an expected 24-hour business trip to San Antonio to find
this the first email I was moved to open and read.  It really spoke to me and I
want to respond and I'm pooped so I'm going to do it by interspersing comments
into the message..

InaRuth@aol.com wrote:

> Ina here:
>
> Hello everyone.  Haven't meant to be hiding out, but been feeling quite quiet
> lately.  My son returns from Prague Aug 1st so I've spent several days home
> alone in the quiet, meditating.  Course having my phone down for two days
> helped the quiet along a lot way!
>
> As the subejct says " I am empowered by everything I say and do."  This is not
> meant to be a lesson in hubris.  Au contraire.  It's a new stand I'm
> exploring.  What if I am empowered by everything I say and do - in other
> words, grant myself the same grace I am granting others.

This is right along the lines of what I've been experiencing too.  Almost as if
I've become the puppeteer with the strings to the puppet (the puppet being the
automatic self-and-other critical me.)I've been calling everything that I
automatically do  into question - not in a hind-sight fashion, but like an added
everyday engagement, similar to noticing when I hear a new word I've recently
added to my vocabulary.

> How would the world
> alter if all of us did that?  I know we're all still grapling with the
> distinctions from the last weekend, but hell, why not invent while grapling.
> You may still get it eventually, and if not what the hey....worm farms you
> know.  And the worms do NOT care what your IQ or bra size was!
>



> So, I've been thinking about something I tell my students that most of their
> intrapersonal (self to self) communication is not appropriate and if they
> heard someone say to their best friend what they say to themselves, that
> they'd deck the other person.
>
> So I'm doing an experiment.  Yesterday I was driving to a customer's and I
> went in the totally wrong direction ( went toward one of his places of
> business instead of the other).  And instead of hearing my calling myself one
> of those names, I heard myself saying what I would have said to the children
> "Silly lumpkin, you're going the wrong way."  And I heard myself!  And was
> quite surprised!  Hmm.  Don't tell me the prof is actually practicing what she
> preaches!
>
> The serenity is still here. Mine too.  Don't know where it came from (other than
> out of
> the last weekend), but I'm not complaining.  My magick seems to flow better
> also.  Yes.  Mine too.  In fact, I'm finding that my magic is working in areas
> where it never was before - that I'm being effortlessly powerful in places where
> before all there was was helpless repetition.



> It's almost as if I think of a customer and s/he calls with work for us
> to do.  Almost uncanny.  And everything I want people to do (almost) seems to
> be happening without my asking.  It's something I've heard of called a
> "seamless" life.  And I'm waiting for the return of the roller coaster!  Me,
> too.  But given the fact that there are new conversations that seem to be
> functioning as meta-conversations, I'm beginning to hear the waiting as just
> another category 1 conversation. Hmm  Hmm for me too.
>
> So, what about you?  Are you willing to take on being empowered by everything
> YOU say and do?
> Yes.  I think I've begun to impose some sort of objectivity or clean-slate-ness
> onto the already existing over-worked canvas of my being.



> Here'e the three questions in intrapersonal communication a la Ina.
>
> What language am I speaking?  The lingua of empowerment
> To whom am I speaking?  A child of G-d
> For what am I speaking?  Life unimaginable.
>
> What language amm I speaking?  The language of wonder.

To whom am I speaking?  Respected partners.For what am I speaking? Empowerment.

With great love and appreciation,
Robyn


> love and kisses,
> i






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