Your golden face
Is full of sun my dear.
Let me rest here awhile with you.
Cry if you must,
as I play you river music melodies.
Sweet honey friend,
Your lover may be gone,
but remember that god will never leave you.
Golden Sun
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Design your Life
In a recent ayahuasca ceremony, I saw the word ‘design’ in big fractal letters.
A few months later, and I’m continuing my exploration of the meaning of the word.
Initially cryptic, the message has been getting increasingly clear. It was about taking ownership and responsibility to design my life.
We write our own story.
Taking responsibility is hard in the beginning. Knowing that YOU have power over your own life. That it’s up to YOU. That YOUR words, YOUR actions have meaning, and consequence.
“What about life events” you say? “We can’t control a car crash. We can’t control the weather.”
Of course, we can’t control the externalities. What we can control is our adaptation to these externalities.
Or, in other terms, we can take ownership of our life design.
5 minute Exercise: Designing your perfect day
Take 5 minutes at the start of your day to visualise your perfect day. Design it with no limitations. Don’t think of work, or duties, or responsibilities.
Imagine total freedom. What would your day look like?
Then, look at the themes that came up during the visualisation. Work at weaving them into your day.
Do this every day for a week.
Notice the effects of your practice.
Be patient.
Life design is a subtle art. Like all things, it takes time to practice, and master.
Remember, your life is your own. What you do with it is up to you. So get creative & start designing!
Happy creation 💖
Namaste friend,
Kimberley
xxx
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Loving Yourself Unconditionally
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
-Rumi
Growing happiness is an ongoing process for all of us.
What I’ve discovered along the road is that happiness is intrinsically tied to how much we love ourselves.
It’s not an easy feat, loving yourself.
More often than not, we are conditioned in thousands of different ways not to love ourselves. The negative messages we receive day in day out, from advertisements, education systems, food, gender roles, and most of all the expectations that are placed on us, by ourselves and others, are enough to make even the strongest of us question ourselves.
What if I told you that it’s possible to deprogram? To tune out the noise, and start receiving the true messages of love and light that surround us when we just stop and listen?
Starting a truly loving relationship can be fraught with fears, and complications. The only way out is through.
If you make a contract with yourself, to start loving yourself from today, you will find that it’s the strongest and most lasting relationship you will ever grow.
Here are some ideas on how to start:
1. Looking in the mirror
This part is the simplest. Take 5 minutes out of your day to look at yourself in the mirror.
Listen to the words that come into your mind. Whether they are positive or negative, try to listen without judgement, and when you can lay them to rest.
Make the following affirmation:
“I promise to love you. There are no conditions to this love.”
From there, continue with your own vows to yourself. Every time you look in a mirror, try to remember the pact you made with yourself.
Positive affirmations breed positive, healing thoughts about yourself, that will grow your self-love.
To learn more about mirror work, I recommend Louise Hay’s ‘Mirror Work’ book. For an informative article on the topic, click here.
2. Nourish yourself
Familiar with the phrase “you are what you eat?”.
We are always being told what to eat. “Eat more protein, no, less protein. More fats, no, less fats. More fruits, no, less fruits.”
The messages that we receive about food are amongst the most confusing!
One key thing that I’ve learned is to trust your gut.
Along my personal journey, I switched to a vegan diet because I found that I felt better overall. My gut was telling me that it was happier. I had more energy, and my skin was glowing!
When I started to intuitively listen to my body, and read the subtle signs that it was sending me, I found myself making healthier options without feeling any sense of renunciation, or craving.
Nourishing ourselves is key. We all deserve to be well-fed, and happy. We all deserve to nourish ourselves with good food, and to nourish our souls with whatever feeds our spirit.
When you have time, sit with a piece of paper and a pen, and ask yourself “What nourishes me?”.
You might be surprised by the answers!
3. Breathing
Meditation is a way for you to reach the inner light that is your true nature.
Breathe deep. Inhale, and exhale. By connecting with your breath, you connect with your true essence, which is…
Pure love.
I really enjoy this free heart opening unconditional love meditation here. Give it a try. It might just open your doors of perception…
4. Exercising with love
Many of us punish ourselves with exercise. We set intense goals for ourselves, and then self-loathe and feel guilty if we don’t reach them.
I used to exercise hard. And then I decided not to. I decided to approach a rigourous activity with grace and gentleness.
I tried yin and tantric yoga.
I swam, because it felt good.
I walked and jogged, smelling the flowers as I go, instead of running hard and pounding the asphalt.
And guess what? My body responded positively. I’m in better shape than ever, and my mind loved it too. And my soul? My soul shone with love!
Next time you exercise, try not to push hard with a goal in mind. See how your body responds, when you tell it you love it, and you thank it for the movements you are doing.
5. Surrender
Surrender is a tough one. For me, it’s perhaps one of the things I still struggle with most. As humans, we like to be in control. We are both innately wired, and then highly socialised to be in control.
In what might seem like a great opposition, surrendering has actually brought me more in alignment, and therefore more in control of my own path than ever before.
Our natural state, our purest essence is love.
By surrendering, and giving up all preconceived notions of identity, of control, of barriers and of judgments, we are more able than ever to truly experience this world as it is.
Heaven on earth.
My daily yoga practice is key in teaching me how to surrender.
Another great tip is to challenge yourself with stepping outside of your comfort zone, and facing your fears. There’s nothing that will teach you surrender more quickly than looking at what makes you afraid, moving through the fear, and doing it anyway!
6. Vision boards
Vision boards an extremely powerful manifestation tool, and very helpful on the path towards lasting self-love.
Life is our creation, so take some time to imagine what life would look like with self-love in it! Then draw it, write it down, copy and paste collages of it, to remind yourself, and expand that vision even further.
For an excellent in-depth guide to vision boards, I recommend this Deepak Chopra article.
Remember.
We are all pure love.
Nothing, and everything.
🙏
Namaste friend,
Kimberley
xxx
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How to: Start your days off right
Welcome to the fifth and final article of my five-part “How To” series.
The dawn breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep.
-Rumi
Mornings can be wonderful! The key to enjoying them is practicing a few morning rituals.
Rituals are important. Their repetition provides a focal point from distraction. They give a level of comfort and familiarity, and most importantly, they provide a space and time for us to practice being in the moment, moment to moment.
In this article I share with you my top 3 favourite morning rituals that have helped me learn to love mornings!
How to start your day off right:
1. Japanese water therapy
Japanese water therapy sounds fancy, but it’s simple.
It’s just drinking water on an empty stomach. Six to eight glasses, to be precise.
Why?
The Japanese believe that drinking lots of water first thing in the morning has many health benefits. From improved metabolism, to reduction of inflammations and body aches, and better digestion, the benefits seem to far outweigh the effort of doing something we can’t live without anyway.
I’ve found that starting the day off with the water element really helps me flow throughout the rest of my day with ease.
Give it a try, and let me know what you think in the comments below!
2. (Wim-Hof) Breathing
Developed by the superhuman known as the Ice Man (aka Dutch athlete Wim Hof), the Wim-Hof breathing technique is about as simple as it sounds.
That’s right, after drinking, I’m now proposing that you breathe 😹
Jokes aside, Wim-Hof breathing is amazing. You breathe deeply for 3×30 breaths. At the end of each round, you see for how long you can hold your breath for.
The Ice Man developed the technique from ancient Tibetan practices, and has kindly adapted it for our often hectic modern lifestyles.
So much so that there is even a great free app you can download here, with full instructions and a handy tracker, so you can see your progress.
Remember, be gentle with your rigour! It’s ok to just drink your water and breathe in bed before you get up, if you’re not quite a natural morning person just yet. Respecting yourself also involves knowing your boundaries, and working with yourself in a way that is right for you!
3. Healthy breakfast
I used to never eat breakfast. As a teenager, I preferred sleeping in until the last possible minute and if possible even later than that. Skipping breakfast over sleep seemed sensible.
Oops.
Now that I’m a little older and wiser, I have learnt a lot about the benefits of eating breakfast.
I wrote about the benefits of nourishing yourself here. A healthy morning breakfast ritual is the key to unlocking this!
Why?
- It helps boost your metabolism.
- It gives you energy for the rest of the day.
- It balances your moods
It’s important to remember that not every breakfast is the best for you. A lot of breakfast cereals have hidden nasties, and they’re not giving you the right mix of complex carbs that both power you up and keep your blood sugars consistent for a long period of time. Or until lunch time, anyway.
I usually eat my chef husband’s amazing Inca oatmeal. The Very Secret Recipe goes as follows:
- Oatmeal
- Raw cacao powder
- Maca
- Salt
- Coconut butter
- Chia seeds
- Black seeds
- Hemp seeds
- Coconut sugar
Quantities are up to you. We don’t measure. Try it, see what happens. As he likes to say ‘it’s all about imagination in the kitchen’. And in life, too.
Keep dreaming friend. And when you’re done…good morning!
Namasté,
Kimberley
Xxx
How to: Overcome Resistance
Welcome to the fourth article of my five-part “How To” series.
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end
-Leonardo Da Vinci
You know that feeling when your alarm goes off, and you hit the snooze button the first time? and then the second? And then by the third, you quit resisting, and eventually get up and get on with your day?
That feeling is known as resistance. Or, as Freud called it, our ‘death wish.’ Writers call it their ‘block’. In layman’s terms, it’s that familiar voice in your head that says, ‘No, I don’t want to.’
We all feel it, and it manifests in all areas of our live, and touches every single one of us.
The evolutionary point of resistance is linked to our survival instinct. We could and should resist violence perpetrated against ourselves and others. Peaceful resistance such as the Civil Rights Movement in the US in the 60s, or Gandhi and Mandela taught us about the importance of using resistance to say no to injustice.
However, many of us have that survival instinct on overdrive. We are so stimulated in our day-to-day lives, that we are triggered by ‘threats’ that do not actually exist. And so that resistance takes over, and we say ‘no’ all too often.
You are not alone in feeling resistance.
Resistance blocks us from living our most creative lives. Many of us are resistant to change, which could often be positive for us in the long run.
This could be from small to big changes.
Let go of what no longer serves you
That job you want to quit, because it makes you really unhappy? Resistance steps in, and starts to list all of the (fake) reasons why you don’t want to quit.
That dance class you want to start taking? You resist taking it because of that voice in your head that says ‘No’.
So, how do we turn that no into a yes?
Here is my step-by-step guide on how to overcome resistance, and step into a fuller and more creative life:
1. Recognise resistance
‘Knowledge is power’. If you know what resistance feels like within yourself, you are already halfway towards letting go of it.
Start paying attention to when you say no.
In order to do this, you will need to start to…
2. Listen to your own mind
Meditation is a great tool for this. here is a great YouTube meditation for learning to listen to the voice within).
Just finding some silence, and recognising what comes up is great for overcoming resistance!
3. Cultivate willpower
When you cultivate willpower, you grow enough strength to flip the script, and beat the resistance that is saying no. Your voice becomes louder, and you start to say yes!
One of my key tools to cultivating willpower has been yoga. However, any activity that requires some discipline, from running to martial arts, music, drawing, writing, they all cultivate willpower.
Even breathing deeply for 5 minutes a day can cultivate willpower!
I’ve recently discovered Wim-Hof breathing, which *include wim-Hof breathing notes’ which includes holding your breath for as long as you can.
You will find your mindset changing, and feel stronger and more grounded within yourself to take bolder decisions that will change your life, and take it in the direction that you want it to go in.
4. Remember that you are in charge of your own destiny
Only you can make changes in your own life. You get a reset every single day. Make today the day! Carpe diem.
Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
-Rumi
Happy life changes!
Namasté, friend
Kimberley
Xxx
P.S For further reading on the topic of letting go of resistance, I highly recommend the following:
-The War on Art, by Stephen Pressfield
-Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsche
-The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
How to: Follow your Dreams
Welcome to the third article of my five-part “How To” series.
‘Open your eyes for this world is only a dream.’
-Rumi
Dreams are signs too.
I recently wrote on the importance of dreams as signs in this post here.
Our dreams tell us so many things. Our fears, our loves, our desires.
Most of us cannot control our dreamworld. For those of us who can, we engage in practices like dream yoga, and lucid dreaming (more on that in a future post).
Our dreams speak to us.
We don’t only dream at night though. We are actually dreaming all the time.
Our dreams are projections of our thoughts. Our thoughts become our reality. So, following our dreams is important, because in the conventional sense, our dreams have the potential to become our best envisioned reality.
A head full of fears has no space for dreams.
How to follow your dreams:
1. Pay attention to them
I started a regular practice of yoga nidra and dream journaling. Why? Because I learnt so much more about myself!
What comes up in your dreams is a mirror of your self. Your mind, body, and soul. Your subconscious, super conscious, and conscious. Whatever you want to call it.
By paying attention, and starting to listen, you come into a deeper connection with yourself, and so you begin to understand more the direction that your dream symbols are pointing you in.
2. Dream journaling
In the beginning, it’s difficult to remember our dreams. We usually just wake up, and drink our coffee, right?
Cultivating a practice of dream journaling is an amazing tool for increasing dream recall.
To start, buy a journal, and keep it by your bedside.
When you wake up, write what you remember. Try to be as descriptive as you can, and ask yourself questions such as “What could I sense? Where was I? Who was I with?”.
Slowly, you will find your dream recall increasing, and then you can begin decoding the messages behind them.
For a more in-depth guide of how to dream journal, I highly recommend this article by How to Lucid. It is an amazing resource for all of you interested in dreaming and lucid dreaming.
3. Practicing courage
Practicing courage is what the Light Lioness is all about! We need bravery in this life.
Fear is a powerful emotion, that can keep us stuck in a negative thought patterns, comfort zones that are actually not comfortable, and toxic relationships!
By practicing courage everyday, we grow in strength and bravery. This will
Start small. Don’t go out and start tackling violent crime! Make sure you’re always staying safe, and protected.
Keep it it simple. Even small acts like walking on a different side of the street than you usually do, or doing a different activity on a Friday night than usual can be great steps that start to develop your courage.
It is when we are courageous that we dare to follow our dreams.
Dare greatly!
4. Listening to your heart
Not letting your mind take control is important when following your dreams.
Let your heart guide you. Listen to what it’s telling you.
To switch off your head, and settle into your heart, I recommend this 30 min heart opening yoga on YouTube by one of my favourite online yogis, Candace.
5. Taking action
Listening to our dreams, decoding them, and practicing courage are all very well. The last step is to take action!
When our dreams tell us something, we will then have the skillset to remember them, decode them, and the bravery to follow our hearts and act upon where they’re telling us to go next in life!
Sweet dreams, friend 💖
Namasté,
Kimberley
xxx
How to: Read the Signs
Welcome to the second article of my five-part “How To” series.
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
We’d all love a map to life. And, whilst I cannot promise you this, what I can tell you is that the world is full of signs for us to follow, which illuminate the steps of our path. We just need to learn how to read them.
We most often use words, in order to convey our signs. But really, words are the least effective communication tool we have.
What is far more effective are feelings. The beauty of signs is that they can open us up to our feelings. Accessing our deepest feelings takes us to our highest truth.
Living in our highest truth is the way to authentic happiness.
On this path, all we can do is figure out the next few steps.
Think about it for a minute: when you’re in a dark forest, you risk tripping over yourself. Figuring out just the next few steps can stop you from tripping, first of all. And secondly, these steps are what will carry you all the way out of the dark and into the light.
The beauty of the unknown is appealing to the brave, and speculating on the future is fun, but we’re really only always here.
Now.
Rooted in the present.
This shouldn’t stop you from reading the signs in the meantime, as it is important to figuring out your path whilst you’re here!
Here’s my step-by-step guide of how to learn to read the signs:
Step 1: Silence
Find silence. Even if it means locking yourself in a bathroom stall at work with white noise in your headphones, 5 minutes of silence will clear your head, and begin to open your mind to the universe and its messages.
Step 2: Ease the pressure
If you find silence outside, but can’t find it inside, begin to quiet your mind by easing the pressure.
Remind yourself that you don’t need to know what you’re doing in a year. You don’t even need to know what you’re doing in an hour.
This should take the pressure off, and start to ease your mind.
Step 3: Meditate
I keep mentioning meditation, because it’s a lifesaver. Not only that, it’s also a life guide. Everything you want to be, you already are. It’s about connecting to your inner wisdom.
One of my favourite meditations to connect with my inner guide is this one here, by Hypnotics Lab.
Step 4: Open your eyes and use your senses
Once you’ve connected to your inner wisdom, you can start opening your eyes, and reading the signs!
Use your senses to tap into the immediate world around you. What do you see? Smell? Hear? Taste? Touch?
Ask yourself these questions.
That blackbird flying overhead? It’s a spirit animal, telling you something.
That smell that reminds you of a memory you’d repressed? It’s a chance for you to do some emotional clearing, and uncover some more truths. As Aristotle said “Know thyself.” Why? Because knowing your true self as pure love without emotional baggage will lead you to happiness.
Step 5: Practice
Keep practicing and reading the signs will become easier for you!
Nothing happens by coincidence.
The universe is unfolding perfectly.
Keep listening, and walking your path with grace and ease.
Namasté, friend
Kimberley
xxx
How to: Trust again after trauma
Welcome to the first article of my five-part “How To” series.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it” – Buddha
As a rape survivor, trust is a topic I am still learning to navigate. This is because after any type of trauma, we lose trust. In ourselves, and in others.
Our minds like to ask questions, and to talk. They like to say things like ” How can we trust ourselves, if we did not manage to protect ourselves from the trauma?”
Or “How can we trust others, if the other is the one who raped us, hurt us, crashed into us, or cheated on us?”
Our minds are precious, but sometimes they really are like wild monkeys stealing our fruits of joy!
This is why training our minds through yoga and meditation is great for trauma survivors. This in turn helps us to rebuild trust.
Rebuilding trust is crucial for taking those steps from surviving to living after trauma.
I wanted to share some of the great tips I’ve learnt along the recovery road regarding trust:
- We live the life that we choose to create
Remembering this mantra has really helped me on those bad scary days, when the world has felt dark, because I am so distrustful and full of fear.
Grab a pen and paper, and ask yourself now “What do I want my life to look like? (I bet the answer is beautiful, and full of creativity!)
Keep this paper on you, and pull it out in those bad moments
You will notice your mindset starting to shift! Your perspective will show you what you have already created that is beautiful for yourself in your own life.
This will start to show you how much you do for yourself. How worthy of your own love and trust you are.
2. Kindness and patience
Looking at yourself with kind and forgiving eyes is perhaps the number one thing I learnt early on during recovery.
Trauma recovery is one of the most difficult things we have to face. It’s silent, and can be very poisonous (sometimes fatal. PTSD and suicide go hand in hand.)
Acknowledging that it’s hard already gives us a break. Say to yourself “it’s hard being me today. And that’s ok”.
Visualization exercise:
- Imagine someone you love. This can be your best friend, sibling, parent, or partner.
- Imagine them coming to you and saying “I’m having such a hard day today. I feel worthless, and like I can’t trust anyone. I’m scared of everything”. You can replace these words with some of the negative thoughts that come to you during moments of distrust.
- Imagine what you would say and do to comfort that person.
- Now say and do those same things for yourself!
Remember, above all you are your own best friend. Your own sibling. Your own parent. Your own partner.
Cultivating self-love is key to rebuilding trust!
I am sure you would not say to them “You’re right, you’re worthless, and you can’t trust anyone because the world is a terrible place!”
Instead you would be kind, and compassionate. Offer some words of comfort, and love. Give them a hug, and maybe some chocolate!
By reminding yourself of keeping your kind and forgiving eyes on, you will start to see yourself as your friend. You will stop the negative mind chatter that can be so paralysing, and hurtful, and you will
3. Dive deep
After my trauma, one of my coping mechanisms was to do what I now like to call “surface swimming.”
You know the doggy paddle, with the hair and face and preferably shoulders above the water style?
That.
What I mean by surface swimming is that I did not trust myself to dive deep into experiences, or life anymore. I liked to chat to someone for 10 minutes but not more, in case my trauma started to surface.
I would go for a coffee and date casually, but kept my heart and soul closed. “Better to stick to the surface, so no one gets hurt.”
After the trauma, I felt like minefield. A ticking time bomb. Surface swimming meant that there was less chance of anything going off.
This is not to say that we should start dating immediately, and everyone learns to swim at different paces! Remember tip no.2 about kind and forgiving eyes, whatever stage you are at is the best for you right now, and loving yourself for it is so important!
However, aiming for deep diving will start to open your world up again. There is so much joy, light and beauty in this life, and you deserve to enjoy it my friend.
Good luck friend,
Namasté
Kimberley
xxx
The Art of Letting Go
“The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone” – The Bhagavad Gita
Letting go is a hard art to learn. In this day and age, we get so attached: to results, friends, family, partners, pets, and experiences.
Many of us seek possession, gratification, and validation in at least one area of our life.
Do any of the following sound familiar?
“How many followers do I have today? Is anyone reading my posts? If I text this person, will they text back within 5 minutes? I need to get at least 85% in this test to feel like a success.”
This mindset can be paralysing, and highly toxic. It can stop us from achieving the goals we are so focused on getting.
The Bhagavad Gita teaches us that the wise man lets go of all results.
We are enough.
Finding our joy comes from doing the actions themselves. Great! But how?
Shifting into this mindset can be tricky, especially at first.
Letting go of results means letting go of anxiety, fear of failure, and means you actually spend valuable time and mental energy on working towards your goal rather than worrying about it!
For me, 2017 was a year of intense growth. I married the man of my dreams, after a relationship history that I am still struggling to accept as my story (more on how accepting your story is an integral part of healing in another post!), and I also lost a lot of people along the way. My path shifted away from a clear course:
I quit a stable but dissatisfying job.
I took huge leaps of faith.
I began to dance.
So, here are my top 3 tips for how to let go of results and enjoy the moment:
1. Meditation
Whether it’s 5 minutes or 5 hours, committing to a regular practice will work wonders in your life. It will teach you the true meaning of letting go.
Try of my favourite 5 minute meditations right here
2. Be curious
I’m someone who since i Was little was always asking “why?”. Cultivating this natural childish curiosity has led me to reading, travelling, meeting wonderful friends, and learning about the world with open eyes and no judgement.
Ask yourself “Why am I Doing this?” “What is my motivation?”. This attitude of self-inquiry
So, take a deep breath, and ask yourself “Why?
3. Cultivate love and gratitude
This will help you in all areas of life, not just with letting go!
Try thinking now of 3 things that you are grateful for, and that you love. If nothing comes to mind, look around you.
Tap into your senses.
What can you see, hear, touch, smell, or taste?
Being grateful for this life, and for our senses that allow to experience this world allows us to tap into all the abundance it has to offer!
Good luck friend,
Namasté
Kimberley
xxx
The Elderly
A friend wrote to me yesterday:
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This is a phenomenon I have observed for years now. The shock I felt in the UK when I saw how our neighbour, an elderly woman in her late 70s, lived alone with only her dog Suki for company. Her children visited once every two months, if that, and no one to do her shopping, or look after her. My mother’s indignation, asking where her family was, where was the community.
She died in a care home, alone and lonely, so bored of life that she just gave up. You don’t always need an external object for suicide: the mind can become the strongest poison of them all.
The creation of institutions to replace what a community should be doing is an abhorrence. Even in a more traditional and community-minded society like Italy, care homes have increasingly become the norm. Why?
Because of the capitalist over-drive that we find ourselves in. No one has the time, that most precious and scarce of resources nowadays, to look after the elderly, or the sick. In this malaised, consumed, consumer world, Love has been effectively replaced by Money. And so now only money will ensure “care”, but a functional care. An institution can never replace the warmth of human heart, or the kiss on the cheek from lover to beloved.
Did we not learn the lessons from the reservation schools in Canada, from boarding schools across the world? From zoos even? What sort of pain have they produced? A suffering that has become generational in its vastness.
Why do people keep thinking that the more they build, maximise, make efficient, make quick, quicker, the quickest, they will be happy? Wake up world. We are close to the zenith of external progress, with its desire for power and possessions.
“But these places are still run by human beings who care”. Yes, I’m sure that the nurses and care-givers do genuinely care, and have love to give. But again, it goes back to time. The elderly packed in like battery hens on a farm – how much time is there to dedicate to each individual soul? A nurse paid to wipe your arse will never wipe it as softly as your own child. Only they hold the body memory of the way you used to do it for them too, at the beginning of life.
The natural cycle has been interrupted.
Let’s continue to use that great cocktail of drugs of the 20th century, TV and pharmaceutics, to numb ourselves to this madness. Why not. It has worked so effectively, so functionally, for women, the elderly, and the “insane”, has it not? Aren’t we all cured?
This is going to bring nothing except Dantesque suffering.
Let it burn.
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