LIR 22014 EhwazR

Not all relationships are symbiotic; not all situations require a balance of give & take.  There is no right/ wrong in receiving without giving - or vice versa.

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I expected this to manifest as a situation where I either felt guilty for being on the receiving end of something, or felt annoyed because I wasn't getting any return for my work.

Instead, it became an analysis of my relationships - which ones are symbiotic?  Which ones are codependent?  Is it the same thing?  Which ones are one-timers, which ones are long term?  Is there a relationship that isn't symbiotic, in my life, in the long term?  

Hopefully, this will become a posting or two (or five) for my meanderings page.  There is a lot to think about, when it comes to relationships, how we are programmed for them and to them and through them.  It's easy to talk about change for self and empowerment, but putting it into practice requires changing relationships.

Lot's to think about.

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LIR 22214 Hagalaz & UrazR

Old foundations, old rules, crumple under your new truths.  As the truths fulfill your happiness, it's time to create a new foundation.

I hope you have a great day!

-Lila

12313 - Ehwaz

Can you identify all of your symbiotic relationships?  Some may surprise you.  What are you giving & what are you receiving?  Which ones make you happy?


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The symbiotic relationship I most often neglect is the one with my body.  For many long years, I charged down the "mind over matter" road, sure my body would do what I asked, no matter it's condition or training.  Since I practiced before I asked it to do musical theater, and never ever demanded it to do marathons, we got along pretty well.  Sure, I was dramatic, but, hey! musical theater.  And I chalked my erratic mood swings up to empathy.

But eventually I realized some of my actions/ reactions/ Involuntary habits were due to chemicals, and not to emotional or mental flow.  In fact, the chemical could influence the emotional and mental.  Talk about being brought down a peg.  It just didn't seem right.  I accepted the brain sent electrical currents (and that just proved the mind was the most powerful muscle).  I figured out my beliefs on the soul, its purpose, it's separation from the body.  Heck, I had astrology to explain a lot of my behavior!

So to realize something as simple as food could have a major effect on me was very disturbing.  Caffeine, okay.  Alcohol, yes.  Tobacco, whatever.  Drugs... well, duh, that's why they're illegal.  Sugar only affected children of course.  But food...

Food was only about calories and taste.  Vitamins were for bones (and hair!).  There was no way they could have an effect on my body.  Much less all the other chemicals no one had even invented yet!

I still forget that I can be brought low by a lack of lunch.  And it can get pretty obvious when I forget my herbals.

So awareness of body is my theme for yesterday's reading.  To remember.  To care for.  To pamper a bit.  Because even if cloning becomes viable, I don't want it.  When this body is done, I'm done.  And I'm not done yet.

Therefore, I gots to take care of my body, so it can get me where I want to go.

I hope you have a great day!

-Lila