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CherryBom
Yoga Gypsy


Registered: 12/26/98
Posts: 11,177
Loc: Ontario
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Personal Therapy
#21740335 - 05/30/15 09:41 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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My current situation:
Hazelnut coffee, disney songs and black cats. I just downloaded a gig of disney songs, I think the cats are into it.
I'm looking for cheap flights to Costa Rica and beach huts in the range of $40 usd/night. My heart is empty and I need adventure. Any of you dirty hippies want to go scuba diving? I heard some 'advice' once to build a life you don't need a vacation from, but that was before I spent any time near the ocean. I don't know what I need, but I need something and I'm going to figure out what it is.
What do you do for yourself when you need a boost? What are you self-care routines? What do you need right now??
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Mr.GuessWork
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Re: Personal Therapy [Re: CherryBom]
#21740455 - 05/30/15 10:14 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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When I'm in some kind of major life turmoil I like to take naps and dream a lot. If I obsess about something consciously, I tend to get stuck on certain aspects of my problems and I miss other options or outlooks. Dreaming is almost like taking psychedelics except I don't have to balance reality with the hallucination. When I've been seriously bothered for a while, my dreams will be influenced by whatever's bothering me. I just let my mind take me where it wants to go, and I don't have enough control to get in my own way. Then I take over when I wake up. Most of the time with these kind of troubles I really need to change my mind first, and the rest follows naturally.
I've never been a big fan of changing locations to pursue happiness. I like traveling and playing at the beach, but it always seems like shallow escapism when I see people travel to try to become happy. It's almost like they think happiness is a place they can fly to. I hope you have fun at the beach though. Maybe it'll give you some time and space to relax and let your troubles sort themselves out. I'm also highly amused by the gigs of Disney songs. That's the kind of stuff that can help get you into those nice relaxing quit-minded states where weird ideas pop into your head. I'm a big fan of escapism when you really get to escape.
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CherryBom
Yoga Gypsy


Registered: 12/26/98
Posts: 11,177
Loc: Ontario
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I'm a gypsy. I think you hit the nail on the head with the escapism. Thanks for that.
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cez

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Re: Personal Therapy [Re: CherryBom] 1
#21744428 - 05/31/15 11:08 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Drugs, exercise and art. The holy trinity for personal therapy.
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Deckard_Cain
Mystic



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Re: Personal Therapy [Re: cez] 1
#21745662 - 05/31/15 05:52 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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What makes me feel really good lately is cleaning the house and doing things for other people and otherwise devotion to other. Making music and all manner of art are great too. Current drugs of choice :rue+cubensis+salvia. I train and eat well also.
I married the Ocean last time I was on the shore. It makes me feel super great too.
However right now I'd have to leave behind my drugs and a lot of my art making tools and my diet behind if I went somewhere warm like that. Kind of attached to the lifestyle . Been going swimming when it's warm enough here anyway and getting my tan on early on in the day before the clouds roll in. It's sort of like the tropics plus all the comforts of home.
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once in a lifetime
sun child



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Re: Personal Therapy [Re: CherryBom] 1
#21746344 - 05/31/15 09:04 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah I spent my whole life on this 
hehe
^^'s post is on the nose; a while ago i had an exp, was resting in peace before sleep, feeling close to nirvana, with my biggest cat layin on my shoulder, and had a similar feeling; wish for the peace to reach whole world; next morning awoken by a rescue kitten, and spent that day caring for him, and that night sheltered him on my neck, under ma beard, it was one of the most transforming experiences of my life. . . brought home everything, about giving, love, caring for mother earth, etc, in a most profound way.
stayed up all night just focused on healing and peace for him, as he had been sole-survivor, stayed up most all the night and it was more refreshing than i could express.
so i would say that. . .
yet - getting to that first place is the first step; because we affect others only to the level of consciousness we are at;
self-faith and self-trust are like almost 100% of the thing.. once you get that, it's done;
other than that, exploration into states of consciousness and peace -
ya just walking meditation in nature is the main thing. climbing trees,
oh an gazing at horizon, at tree-line on horizon, is one a the best forms of meditation.

Have a wonderful day Cherry
-------------------- Innocent, Oldfield & Hegerland Julia Delaney, Bothy Band Rasta Girl, Sister Carol Genesis, Jorma K I Wish You Peace, Lawrence Laughing Do Your Thing, Moondog large . . music garden . . veryall peace them hiStarhouse - main Time Traveler's Guide
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CherryBom
Yoga Gypsy


Registered: 12/26/98
Posts: 11,177
Loc: Ontario
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Quote:
once in a lifetime said:
ya just walking meditation in nature is the main thing. climbing trees,
oh an gazing at horizon, at tree-line on horizon, is one a the best forms of meditation.

That sounds really great. I like this one.
Quote:
Deckard_Cain said:
I married the Ocean last time I was on the shore.
Marriage is a lifelong commitment. You must really love her.
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ManianFH
living in perverty


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Re: Personal Therapy [Re: CherryBom] 1
#21747847 - 06/01/15 10:15 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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definitely vacations. whenever im feeling trapped for one reason or another i start looking at cheap rooms in vegas or somewhere else where we can get away for a night or the weekend. costa rica sounds amazing, and if you can do that im sure you will have an experience of a lifetime. my brother did peru once and the pics he brought back made me want to buy a ticket. we take a trip once a month, which keeps me happy and my wanderlust at bay
i also have a group of friends i meet with every sunday to play magic cards, and when were not traveling, i love that day. Later in the year it will become football/magic cards, which is my favorite time of the year.
also, thai massages , $30 for an hour of relaxation can do a lot for my state of mind; if you have that nearby id say to take advantage of it. makes me want to get one just typing about it.
pretty much pampering myself in every way haha. if i am down, even due to some mistake i have made (which is not uncommon), instead of coming down on myself or ruminating i found its better to give myself gifts and that boost my spirits, and helps me reflect more positively on my life
Cheers! and hope you find what youre looking for
-------------------- notapillow said: "you are going about this endeavor all wrong. clear your mind of useless fear and concern. buy the ticket, take the ride, and all that.... " ChrisWho said: "It's all about the journey, not the destination."
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sun child



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Re: Personal Therapy [Re: ManianFH]
#21748413 - 06/01/15 01:04 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah, massages can be wonderful, especially if you have a brilliant masseuse. and that's a skill like any other, i'm sure if it were quantified there'd be a best masseuse in the world somewhere some of them talk about energy and what not a fair amount, so that's interesting too.
i don't avail myself of it personally, but definitely a very good point;
as for vacations, +1 or 2 to that as well, one of the best things - personally i do so rarely, every few years or so, do conserve on energy consumption. . and it's possible to get all the benefits of travel just staying in one place; helps a lot if there's good scenery and what not.
on the massage topic, you can give yourself massages too, feet and ankles are a good one - calves, etc - we often spend time on our feet, and healing massage to them is a very beautiful way of self-strengthening or what not. . .
along with that, aikido ( i see you got yoga already ) is one I like, i mix with tai-chi some. . .
and of course dozens or hundred of little tricks or secrets to relaxation and vitality -
however, all those aside, after all meditation and all the rest, sometimes simply massaging jaw and neck muscles can be very key 
-------------------- Innocent, Oldfield & Hegerland Julia Delaney, Bothy Band Rasta Girl, Sister Carol Genesis, Jorma K I Wish You Peace, Lawrence Laughing Do Your Thing, Moondog large . . music garden . . veryall peace them hiStarhouse - main Time Traveler's Guide
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Hippocampus



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Whenever my wife gets the wanderlust we just take a little vacation traveling somewhere. Even a day trip can be enough to satiate it at least temporarily. Hell, even just making fantasy future plans to travel works for her.
I've never been to Costa Rica, but I always imagine a long windy, mountainy drive through the densest jungle, and then a steep slope out of the jungle to some small deserted white sand beach. If there were a bungalow down there, that would just be perfect.
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Icyus
KavitārkikasiṃHa



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Hell you can cure schizophrenia on your own. You only need enlightenm3nt, so not the easiest, but doable.
-------------------- And thus begins the reverse-fusing of our one-dimentional understanding, and adds ever-expanding perspectives, in depth and number; splitting our perception, and in so doing, seemingly irrationally, creates yet more one-ness, with all that ever was, is and will ever be, streching across the infinite, inunderstood concept of everything, percievable and not.
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moonrockmushy
High on Spite



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Re: Personal Therapy [Re: Icyus] 1
#21759678 - 06/03/15 11:01 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nature. I could probably do without lots of my favorite things, but if I don't have a nice shady grove I can walk or sit in and think I start to lose it after a while. I don't know how people live in places detached from the natural world, it just gets under my skin. I've lived in cities before and I just have to take a bus out of town every other weekend at least, if not a couple times per week, just to unwind a bit.
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Thaj
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Starting growing some veges, salvia divinorum and put and ad on craiglist searching for like minded people
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carshissbymywinda

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yogabunny
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Re: Personal Therapy [Re: CherryBom]
#21815923 - 06/16/15 06:24 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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TravelerOfSorts
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Re: Personal Therapy [Re: yogabunny]
#21816646 - 06/16/15 08:56 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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go with the adventure for all we know you do work and are on the brink of piling more years on, and al taht you need is to see costa rica and feel the warmth and smell the jungle and see some creatures like why be destitute of the things a tropic can expose you to?
-------------------- a soul of solitude but a master of ecstacy in waiting for my rebirth cycle i have hopes that when mushrooms find me it will occur then and i can go about the world as a medicine man walking staff in one hand spaceship in the other a journeyman of nature soon to be stepping up to novice hopefully i will have time to become an expert, and i believe only in death will i become a master
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