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 To be taken seriously...... - Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:10 pm |
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BooBoo
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
Posts: 1138
Location: Oregon (USA)
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Does anyone else feel like they are being pulled many directions by the needs (and demands) of others?
It can often be really rough to find long enough periods of time to meditate, Reiki, even do readings for people.
I try to tell everyone I need some quiet time, but it rarely works....... Someone will still interrupt with , "Oh, I'm sorry - BUT, I NEED.... Can you break away or can you come here?"
I hate to say it, but I think one of the reasons is because I don't do it to make money. It's considered a "hobby" by my family members.
Larry has promised to build a website for me and once that happens things may change......However, he's not exactly burning to get started either.
Oh! Here's another website name to consider --
peekingthroughtherainbow.com
Just checked a few days ago and it's available. What do you think?
Thanks for letting me post all this...... I'm just trying to figure out how to be taken seriously.
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| Re: To be taken seriously...... - Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:31 pm |
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Sage/Debs
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Posts: 4608
Location: NY
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| BooBoo wrote: | Does anyone else feel like they are being pulled many directions by the needs (and demands) of others?
It can often be really rough to find long enough periods of time to meditate, Reiki, even do readings for people.
I try to tell everyone I need some quiet time, but it rarely works....... Someone will still interrupt with , "Oh, I'm sorry - BUT, I NEED.... Can you break away or can you come here?"
I hate to say it, but I think one of the reasons is because I don't do it to make money. It's considered a "hobby" by my family members.
Larry has promised to build a website for me and once that happens things may change......However, he's not exactly burning to get started either.
Oh! Here's another website name to consider --
peekingthroughtherainbow.com
Just checked a few days ago and it's available. What do you think?
Thanks for letting me post all this...... I'm just trying to figure out how to be taken seriously. |
Oh my dear friend...how well I know this frustration.
First I discovered IF I wanted to manifest the reality of my hopes and dreams I had to be damn serious and lay down some laws. 7 yrs ago I had children also and so I told them, when I am __________, you leave me alone unless someone is bleeding or broken.
Sounds very harsh doesn't it? BUT, they came to understand I wanted the time, I needed the time and when I got it I was was a much better much happier person!
Second, choose a time...mine was mornings....don't even think about bothering me during that time was the rule again. Surely short of a horrible thing they can leave you be...say after Bri goes to school. Then again I would grab that time after they were to bed for a bit, read, think, let myself fly outside of my corporeal existence.
Third..hobby...mmm I know how that feels. How cute that she thinks one can make a difference, indulge her, she's happy. However, you and I know that one can, and united a group can, do amazing things, you and I have felt it joined!
It is not mercenary to want to do what we do, learning to charge a fee for things given freely is the sticker point but we must manage to pay for our "hobby" as well as help and heal those here and beyond and even yet to be.
Now, create a "sacred space"...make it your own and no one elses. THIS is yours. IF you are there, the door (be there one or not) is closed. You are WORKING.
You have a gift..you see inside and you see beyond death. Human and the fur. It is a BIG thing, a huge responsibility. Once inside a moment, you simply cannot be interrupted unless it is critical that they do so. You can see and feel the world beyond the bridge.
Know that by deciding to do all of this, your life will change. People will come all hours of the day and night with their pain...you need to be strong and guarded and take the ME time to regroup and refuel and be safe.
Sometimes I wonder why I came out of my dark closet, I get frustrated at some who just won't or can't listen when they ask. (not any of you dear ones)
Then I decide to take a bit of cave time, I am both fortunate, and not, living alone. Sometimes I crave another voice, someone who understands what it is to hear the sounds, see the sights, and smell the scents of life other than what is here. But after I settle I realize I love what I do, love who I have become...I just remember it isn't an easy Path but it is one I chose. I can withdraw if I wish it, quit but then what?
Too late now for either of us, you lay abed thinking, dreaming, imagining what can come with this new vision of yours. How you can make it your reality and make it blend with your "reality"...home, hearth, child, man, chores and more.
So anxious to birth this idea and nurture it like a child to love and watch grow...
When you take it seriously, and portray it to them you love as such..you will find they will give you the time. The water, the hay, the supper, the phone will all wait just a little bit if needed...it is called respect for who you are. Show them how you respect what you do, who you've become, let it shine from you like a bright light. Demand it, you've earned this all your lifetime of love, laughter, pain and sorrow.
Choose the name that sings to you...the one that when you lay abed in the dark you just can't help but smile.
I am so proud of you Ma, I wonder who you will find in this new endeavor? Sorry this became quite long...your words hit a nerve...I so understand. Love you my sister.
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| - Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:05 am |
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herding cats
Joined: 19 Dec 2007
Posts: 1104
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It is interesting how so many of the men I speak with just get that ME time is important....
You have to follow your heart and not try to be everything to everyone....MA first...then everyone else. This was my mistake everyone was always before me and my things and my time...now I get MY time and then they each get a piece of me lol so to speak.
I am now focused on school and my gym time, those two things are completely mine for me....I also have my hunting and shooting which is a shared interest, but you do have to have your time. The people around you need to be told much as Sage suggests...it has to be made important you are important.
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| Re: To be taken seriously...... - Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:59 am |
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the hermit
Joined: 24 Jan 2008
Posts: 895
Location: Yorkshire
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| BooBoo wrote: | | I'm just trying to figure out how to be taken seriously. |
People will take you seriously
When you take yourself seriously
You must step over that line yourself first
You cannot wait for others to give you the space
Its something that you yourself must make
Good luck
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| - Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:35 pm |
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BooBoo
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
Posts: 1138
Location: Oregon (USA)
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I agree......I need to be more assertive.
And I realize I don't have any place that is MINE..... Larry has his shop. Bri has her own bedroom..... Need to think on this.
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| - Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:39 pm |
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Sage/Debs
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Posts: 4608
Location: NY
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Yup, I thot so....you need to make YOUR space, a place where no one else is allowed...find it...it's right there, love you.
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| - Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:53 pm |
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herding cats
Joined: 19 Dec 2007
Posts: 1104
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yep your own space is a tough one...seems like MOM is the one who often doesn't have a private place..... I have the gym.... and then some areas in the woods that are my secret private places.....
I go to the gym usually 5 days so that is an hour to 3 hours of me time depending and then at least once a week I try to go to the woods alone......it is important even if you end up stealing a stall that is yours and off limits to everyone...lol
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| - Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:40 pm |
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Sage/Debs
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Posts: 4608
Location: NY
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No, she needs a work space, with a wee desk, phone access and computer to do what she dreams. A tiny spare room would do, is there one?
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| - Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:46 pm |
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herding cats
Joined: 19 Dec 2007
Posts: 1104
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| Sage/Debs wrote: | | No, she needs a work space, with a wee desk, phone access and computer to do what she dreams. A tiny spare room would do, is there one? |
actually depending on her barn set up a stall converts quite well to an office/tack room...lol..we did that in a couple of barns when we needed more "office" space
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