Shopping or Sex?

Do women really think more about shopping than men think about sex?  One woman said she doesn't think about either.  

What are the odds?

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

By JOANI J. STEWART

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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

By JOANI J. STEWART

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Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

ANY SIGN WILL DO

Don't you just wonder about the universe sometimes? I was on my way to get acupuncture for my ailing hands when I see this banner on the street that tells me I am ok.  Sometimes the answers we need are right in front of our face, you just need to open your eyes. You don't always get what you want, but you always get what you need. 

License plate on the car in front of mine yesterday -- EGBOK  (everything's going to be OK) 

Any sign will do!!

HANDS ON!

Do you ever think about how much you do with your hands?  Like type?  Write?  Turn pages? Eat?  Drive? Carry things? Hold?  Touch?  Feel?

What if you  couldn't use your hands anymore? Couldn't hold a pen or a tennis racket? Couldn't keep your hands on the steering wheel? 

I am in pain all the time. My joints (not the ones you smoke) are swollen and sore. My hands are puffy and stiff.  I run them under hot water in the morning just to soothe them temporarily. I take Advil, Bayer and am turning to acupuncture. (puncture is the operative part of that word)

So I looked up in my Louise Hay book, "You Can Heal Your Life", and what she has to say about hands and joints took my breath away, because it is true . . . and the truth always hurts . . .  

"Hands - Hold and handle, touch and grip, Grasping and letting go, caressing and pinching, all are ways of dealing with (handling) experiences." The affirmation being: I choose to handle all my experiences with love and with joy and with ease"

Joints - (it gets better!! . . . ) "Represents changes in direction in life and the ease of these movements." Affirmation: I easily flow with change. My life is divinely guided, and I am always going in the best direction."

Well, that certainly struck me - since my life has changed dramatically in the last few months, from having no work and running my own business to taking a full-time job for somebody else; from working alone in my own office to working with other people whose energy is sapping my own. 

I am stress filled, fear based, insecure and competitive. I am not handling the changes in direction with much bliss or trust in the universe. So the pain in my hands represents so much to me that I must change, it is really quite amazing. Quite the revelation. Maybe I should  stop gripping the wheel (stop griping too!) and start driving the car. . . 

 I can heal myself. I just have to remember to be happy and grateful and know that I am blessed and that I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing and the best thing I can do for myself is to LET GO    LET GOD and not hold on to it all. I am giving it to you, you carry it for me . . . 

TALK ABOUT MISGUIDED ENERGY POLICY

Recently had elective (what I thought was going to be minor) surgery. Turned out to be a lot worse then anticipated. Couldn't get past the notion that I had really made a mistake, i.e., if I had known that it was going to be such an ordeal I wouldn't have done it. Man, was I suffering. A couple of days ago a friend more or less told me to get over the mistake idea; that what was done was done and I couldn't undo it. Surprisingly enough I was able to stop putting my energy into my questionable choice since there really was no longer a choice available and started focusing on getting better. In the last 2 days I've started to feel like my old self again. Thanks friend. I know this is not really a bitch, but seems to me that misdirection of energy may very well be at the root of a whole lot of bitches. We'll see.