Comments on: Transition-ey stuff. The first.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:05:46 +0000

Okay, I’m so bookmarking (and maybe printing) this entire post with comments because there is so much positive change and great ideas for the coming year.

Thank you all!

By: Lydia, Clueless Crafter

Lydia, Clueless Crafter — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:35:40 +0000

@ (Lurker) Laura What you said struck me hard. When you proclaimed “screw balance” in favor for more play, I realized that sometimes I strive for balance so much that I cut out spontaneity. I do do lots of spontaneous things like jumping in a snow bank in the middle of a bustling New York street, but was my head it the right place? I’ve got to think about this.

Thanks for giving me something to mull over today!
.-= Lydia, Clueless Crafter´s last post … On Continuity =-.

By: 10 InTENtions for 2010 | Internet Bard

10 InTENtions for 2010 | Internet Bard — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:25:14 +0000

[...] a few examples (See: Kneale Mann, Pastor Jon, the ever-awesome Miz Liz, the heroically vulnerable Havi Brooks, and fellow Louisville-native Peter [...]

By: Melody

Melody — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:11:16 +0000

Oohhh.. Transitions! I’m learning to love them. After all, it’s kind of the eternal state of being, isn’t it?

Not sure about my words and themes for the past and new years,… Kind of liking flow, sensuality and vibrance right now. But I figure I will let the words live themselves up in my life. Totally open to whatever happens!

In any case, I wanted to thank Havi and everyone else that makes this fabulous place be what it is. I wish you all the best of the best! Lots of love and passion for life and yourselves.
.-= Melody´s last post … Mhhmmm… Random Moaning (and why I don’t care what you think) =-.

By: Ilana

Ilana — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:20:15 +0000

Been lurking for a short time. I wanted to comment before because some things you say resonate in a really profound way for me, but here’s my first commment.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the made-up words! :-)

The other comment is that I spent the week in Bat Yam (Israel) to get a different perspective (I live in Jerusalem). I had a big personal project that I wanted to finish and I just couldn’t. Assisted by a few bits of beautiful synchonicity, I gave myself a week away from everything to work on that and only that. I probably rewarded myself more than I actually worked, but the project is done and I can start 2010 with a clean plate.

My personal wish for 2010 is to allow myself to pat myself on the back for finishing the project and getting over the mental block without criticizing myself for not doing all the other things I could have also been doing at the same time.

And more than that to be able to feel what the right direction is for me for 2010. It happened before – after all, how does a girl raised in Yakima, WA, end up in Israel anyway? – and I believe with all my heart that it will happen again.

p.s. A theme that you’ve touched on lately which rings very true to me is that sometimes the people you hope, wish and desire to be your right people, aren’t. Or sometimes, they aren’t your right people right now.

By: Char

Char — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:48:13 +0000

thing i wish i had painted on my wall:

you can’t get blood from a turnip – stop trying.

i am betting on:

my self and that i can create whatever i want by taking small simple actions, looking at the effects and then taking another step.

This is some serious genius wisdom from you today Havi:

You can have a lot of love for someone and still not trust them. —— that’s so true its simply astounds me with it’s truth and that I can hold both at the same time is amazing.

Some things are more subtle and more complex than we would like them to be.———– this is also really an amazing insight. a close friend of mine says “don’t make the simple complex, and don’t make the complex simple” – I was trying to make a very complex situation simple and it took me til this moment to realize i was trying to make a very complex situation, with subtle distinctions simple – and that’s why it didn’t work.

my favorite word:

rest

what i need more of in 2010:

ease
.-= Char´s last post … Anything But Ordinary =-.

By: Kathleen Avins @spiralsongkat

Kathleen Avins @spiralsongkat — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:46:06 +0000

The phrase I wish was spray-painted on my wall this year: "Play with it!" Perhaps that would have helped me unclench more often, and stop allowing tension and panic to get in my way. One piece of hard-earned wisdom from 2009: When I get agitated and short-tempered, the people around me often get agitated ahd short-tempered, too. The more they love me, the likelier this is to happen. It's the dark side of empathy, perhaps. If I want my daughter to learn how to feel her feelings, yes, and allow them, but not get utterly lost in them, then I want to model that for her, to the best of my ability. My favorite word from 2009: Ocean. I didn't get there this year, but I'm learning to carry an ocean inside of me, so I can access it whenever I need it. What I want more of in 2010: Sovereignty. Oh, absolutely. In fact, why wait? There are still a few days left in 2009, days that will be better days if I wear my crown. Visualizing it now... .-= Kathleen Avins @spiralsongkat´s last post ... If blogging can be therapy, can it also be triage? =-.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:26:44 +0000

Thing I wish I had painted on my wall:
You are worth it. Especially when you don’t believe it.

I am betting on my business. Because I really like @Rebecca’s reminder that “we all need to be on ourselves.”

Hard-earned wisdom:
Energy work leads to working on your stuff. Working on your stuff is not fun at all. (I think I had a vague notion that energy work – if there was actually something to it – might be fun. Ha.)

My favorite word:
sovereignity – thanks to @Havi and @Hiro for sharing that – I love it

What I want more of in 2010:
Joy .. I really really need it ..

By: Mona

Mona — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:44:45 +0000

**Special thing I wish I had spray painted on my wall:

“I can forgive me.”

By: Rebecca Prien

Rebecca Prien — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:53:04 +0000

Hi Havi! Wow, thank you.
I’m writing this in the airport feeling like a ricotta stuffed pork sausage. But I just had to write.
I love the honesty and authenticity of everyone’s comments. “Yes, yes and yes” is what I have to say. Transition; growth; voice. Sovereignty.
What I wish was painted on my office wall and my Hard Earned learning for the year are the same: So what?
My guru, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, tells a wonderful story of a sage teaching her the key to the universe: So what?
I really had to learn to say that and mean it this year.
A note from my Swami has actually hung above my desk for the last 6 weeks: “Not too kooky, smart and creative, deep and outside the box. Don’t knock my lawyer girl.”
I’m taking that into 2010 with me.
Along with the theme of Nurturance.
Time for me to value and take care of myself.
And so I’m betting on my practice for 2010.
‘Cause we all need to bet on ourselves.