Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde ValleySedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley
    Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley
    • Home
    • Sedona News
    • Business Profiles
    • Opinion
    • Mind & Body
    • Arts
    • Elections
    • Gift Shop
    • Contact
    • Advertise
    Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde ValleySedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley
    Home » The Land of I-Don’t-Know
    Sedona

    The Land of I-Don’t-Know

    November 1, 2017No Comments
    Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Email Reddit WhatsApp
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email Reddit WhatsApp

    By Dr. Marta Adelsman
    Life Coach in Communication and Consciousness
    www.DrMartaCoach.com
    (November 1, 2017)

    photo_martaadelsman

    When I first sat down to write this, I tried to describe the various psychic and emotional weights – attached to the ankles of our career, relationships, personal/emotional growth and spiritual realization – that keep us stuck.  In an effort to identify hindrances and what prevents us from hearing our inner guidance, I ran into my own hindrance in the form of writer’s block.

    Then I had a huge aha!  Only one psychic/emotional weight hinders us: attaching ourselves to the thought that we need to get someplace where we’re not.  According to Byron Katie (A Thousand Names for Joy, Loving What Is): 

    Thinking we should be someplace (or someone or something) that we’re not is the definition of suffering.

    If, instead of fairly consistent joy, we experience the weight of guilt, shame, confusion and fear because we’re not “moving forward” in life, we can see that weight as an invitation.  It beckons us to look from a higher perspective, to notice what wraps around our experience of “stuckness:” a ribbon and a big bow with a tag that says, “Gifts of Grace inside.”  

    Sedona Gift Shop

    When I look from my higher Wisdom at my own lack of forward progress, I see how I put pressure on myself to know, do or be something about which I haven’t yet received inner guidance.  To be honest, if I fumble around not knowing what the heck to do next, I feel like a failure.  Within that mess, here’s the gift:

    It’s okay to live in I-Don’t-Know.  

    Though it can feel uncomfortable and scary, I-Don’t-Know often presents itself – often in hindsight – as a creative, fertile space of cultivating and incubating and resting.  Waiting can be very productive in a quiet sort of way, and we get to choose whether to fight it or to welcome it.

    As we welcome it, one day the inner landscape shifts and we see clearly.  Ah!  There’s the path I’m to follow!  Maybe we even hum a few bars of the song, “I Can See Clearly Now.”  We feel lighter.  “It’s gonna be a bright, bright, sun-shiny day!”  And if it doesn’t appear so, I can still be bright and sun-shiny, because I know and love whatever shows up!     

     

    Healing Paws

    This is an advertisement

    Comments are closed.


    Analyzing City’s Legal Right to
    Ban OHVs on Public Roads

    By Tommy Acosta
    Mea Culpa! Mea Culpa! Mea Maxima Culpa! I screwed up. Blew it. Totally made a fool of myself. Missed the boat. I am talking about my editorial on the OHV fight, No Legal Traction on OHVs. I assumed that it was ADOT that would make a decision on whether the city could legally ban off road vehicles from our public roads like S.R. 89A and S.R. 179. Man was I off. ADOT has nothing to do with allowing or disallowing the city to do so. ADOT’s response to me when I asked them to clarify their position, was curt and to the point. “ADOT designs, builds and maintains the state highway system,” I was told. “It is not our place to offer an opinion on how state law might apply in this matter.” It was a totally “duh” moment for me when I realized that that the decision or judgement on the OHV ordinance, would involve the state and not ADOT. Chagrinned I stand. The crux of the matter then is whether the city can effectively use a number of standing state laws that can be interpreted to determine whether the city can legally ban the vehicles or not. Read more→
    Recent Comments
    • JB on Mayor & Council Deserve Kudos For Chamber Oversight
    • Richard Kepple on Analyzing City’s Legal Right to Ban OHVs on Public Roads
    • Mary on Analyzing City’s Legal Right to Ban OHVs on Public Roads
    • JB on DORR Hosts Talk on Gun Violence Prevention
    • Sheila Jackman on Remembering Sedona Sculptor John Soderberg: A Tribute to a Creative Genius
    Categories
    © 2023 All rights reserved. Sedona.biz.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.