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Next Step — Don’t Be Scared October 1, 2007

Posted by greenlavender in Art, Emotions, Empowering, Energy, Healing, Health, Inspiration, Life, Love, New age, Personal.
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I met with this amazing person last night, who taught me how not to be scared. My latest posts were worrying me, thinking I was writing that I needed to be scared to keep moving forward. So I asked the Universe for help. There it was last night. Am I ever so grateful! It is the first time I feel like I do today. I feel like I am living in a different body. I don’t feel like my stomach will burst out. The fear butterflies I used to have have been replaced by exciting butterflies. Happy butterflies.

I have reached a new chapter and this is only the beginning.

So please disregard most of what I have written in the past week or two about fear. If you are scared to move forward, ask for help, it will be there.

Much love.

Fat Pig by Neil LaBute — What I Haven’t Talked About August 14, 2007

Posted by greenlavender in Acting, Art, Emotions, Empowering, Energy, Entertainment, Food, Healing, Health, Inspiration, Life, Love, New age, Personal, Plays, Random, Show, Spirituality.
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Breathing Time Productions‘ presentation of Fat Pig by Neil LaBute just closed this past Saturday August 11 in Ottawa. I was Production Coordinator for the show. I had an amazing time. I worked with a fantastic cast and crew. I had been dreaming for years and years about making this kind of art and here I was doing it. It almost felt surreal to me. And how amazing to work on this particular play.

The first time I read Fat Pig I thought I was bored half way through. Urrgh, not another thing about society’s judgment of what’s different. After attending the first week of rehearsals, I found out I was not bored at all; I had been shutting myself down to not be affected by my strong feelings for the subject matter. You see, what was affecting me the most was that the actress playing the overweight lead character, Helen, is a good friend of mine. I had been listening to her for months make comments about how she felt judged by people because of her weight, how she felt like hiding, how when she would pick-up McDonald’s at 1:00am to keep her weight up for the play she would stop eating at a stop light so the person in the next car would not notice… Not being overweight myself, having never experienced being overweight, I always thought she was just being dramatic and her lack of confidence made her see things in a negative way.

I was resisting writing about this. I am grieving. Deeply. I have been since the first week of the show and have been ignoring it until now. Seeing people’s reactions to the play, reading this particular review (http://www.cityjournal.ca/article-128371-REVIEWFat-Pig-cuts-close-to-the-bone.html – unfortunately, the article is no longer on the cityjournal Web site), seeing how difficult these roles are for the actors, has affected me. It has opened my eyes to this cruel world. This world is CRUEL, hurtful, mean, … Why is this world cruel? Because this world is SCARED. Scared of dying, scared of abandonment, scared of famine, scared of poverty, scared of being alone, scared of not being loved, scared of failure, …  We listen to people who feel the need to control. Why do some people need to control? Because they are scared… of all the same things. It’s a vicious cycle.

I am grieving. Grieving the fact that I have ‘ignored’ this cruelty since my birth. Ignored my friend thinking she was being dramatic, when in reality people are afraid of her, of what she ’as fat’ represents. I am sorry C.

Why hasn’t this hit me before? I already knew about fear and it’s consequences. So why this? Now? Because this realization has reinforced my purpose.  Working on Fat Pig has helped open a handful of audience members’ eyes about fear and cruelty. It means that I can keep working on projects like this, projects that can contribute to changing the world. It means that if I write from the heart, like LaBute, about these kinds of subjects, I can change the world.

Today is the beginning of me. June 14, 2007

Posted by greenlavender in Acting, Art, Design, Emotions, Empowering, Energy, Health, Inspiration, Life, Personal, Quotes, Spirituality, Webdesign.
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I just read this quote on http://www.thewinningattitude.com. It’s very appropriate for me right now.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

~ Pantanjali

After nine years, today was my last day working as a Public Servant. I quit my job to do freelance Web and Graphic Design and to give me the flexibility to pursue acting more actively. I will finish my screenplay. I will put up plays. I will paint. I am me. I feel great!  

I know I am on the right path. How? I feel happy. I feel complete. I feel safe. I feel safer now than when I had a permanent “stable” job. Things are moving forward without me having to do anything, or practically anything. I feel I am only heading uphill. The hill is so high it’s like a mountain — Mount Everest. When I hit the top to plant my flag, I will be changing the world.

I Am Grieving… And It Feels Great. February 19, 2007

Posted by greenlavender in Emotions, Energy, Healing, Health, Life, Personal, Spirituality.
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I am grieving and it hurts. But I try to sit in it and experience the entire thing; it’s feeling and feeling feels great. I discovered I was resisting it tremendously. I mean I knew I was resisting, but I never thought this much.

I had a great chat with two amazing friends tonight, and our time together seems to have unlocked my grief somehow. I am one step closer to healing. Thanks to both of you… you are wonderful.

Quote To Live By February 5, 2007

Posted by greenlavender in Empowering, Health, Inspiration, Life, Personal, Quotes, Random.
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“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

Amazing Journey to the Akashic Records January 31, 2007

Posted by greenlavender in About a Medium, Akashic Records, Energy, Health, Inspiration, Life, Love, Mediumship, Metaphysical, New age, Personal, Spirituality.
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After writing about the Akashic Records last week, I felt compelled to visit them again to see what I could find — if I could even access them again. So after putting my kids to bed tonight, I turned on some meditation music and thought “Ok, let’s do this”, without putting to much pressure on myself and with a slight fear of what I could potentially see. Since I journeyed to the Akashic Records during a heart meditation the first time, I decided I would take the same “scenic route”. 

There I am, focussing on my breath, when suddenly, without even getting to my heart, I am facing the old man with the white beard, dressed in white, sitting at the same white table as the first time. I was stunned! I certainly did not expect to see him so soon.  ”Well hello” I said. He smiles, hands me a book, which looks like it is part of a huge encyclopedia series, and directs me to the white door to his left. I walk towards the door expecting to see the many rows of white shelves once I open it. I turn the white handle and walk in. To my surprise, the room is vast – no shelves, simply a table and a chair in the middle of it. I sit down and lay the book on the table — staring at it. Insecure about what I might see, I decide to be courageous; I’ve come this far, I can’t turn back. I open the book at a random page. The page is white, but slowly an image appears. It seems blurry at first, but becomes clearer as I look at it. It is an image of a boy, about 9 or 10 years old, sitting on the side of his bed, with one foot soaking in a tub of warm water. I see his mother’s hands, as if she is crouching next to the tub of water checking on his foot and leg, but she is outside the image so I can’t see what she looks like.  I feel like he’s in pain but does not complain about it, so his mother, like any mother would, thinks it’s simply growing pains — the warm water will sooth him. I feel it’s much more serious.  

After seeing that image, I’m wondering what I should do with it. Maybe if I turn to a different page, I will learn more. I do that a few times, only to be presented with the same image on every single page.  A woman appears standing in front of me, dressed in a white robe with a hood. She takes the book from the table and hands me another one. I say thank you and ask who she is — the Angel of Wisdom she answers. I accept her answer and open the book at a random page. Again, the same image. She repeats taking the book and handing me a new one. Again, the same thing. I ask her why I keep seeing the same image. She answers that it is the one image I am meant to see and that I need to accept the image and trust that I will know what to do with it when the time comes. I then understood why the 3 books – she could have handed me 150 books and I still would have seen the same image — so stop trying to see a different one already.

I look up at the Angel and ask her if my visit is over for tonight and she nods her head yes.

I feel like I am catapulted back into my body and I can open my eyes, which I do, and look around feeling peaceful and content. Then I run to my computer and recount the entire experience on my blog — 1) to help me remember it; 2) to share it with the world, I find this so amazing.