I don't know what it's like in your head.  How things play out there for you.  But here, in mine,  i can tell you… it's easiest to describe in  that transition time from sleep to common awareness.  There is sleep and all that goes on in that dream world then the odd arising to semi conscious and then that split second of waking.  That split second and then the next one or two are just CLEAR and then,  if there is turmoil happening inside me for whatever reason,  the TURMOIL takes form and fills my mind with it's Turmoil.  and so i go,  carrying that turmoil as an under current to the days.  just as background, really, like white noise.  Not interfering,  just there.  

this is how it's been for a while.  and i have been working with it all and i know that my own particular Turmoil has to do with the Well Being of the Goats in their transport from New Mexico to the new world of California.  I really need to find out exactly how many hours that will take.  It would help….the FACT of that.  as in, can it be a straight through drive?   Or, will there need to be a stop.  Straight through is easiest to think about.   a stop would be complicated.   Anyway….this is what is the Source of the Angst.  Not my leaving here.  Not what it all might unfold to being There.  Those things are not anxiety provoking.  They are Changes and i don't get tangled in them.  It's those HOURS of TRANSPORT.  That's it. 

Seems easy enough,  doesn't it.  But it's FILLED with adrenaline.  

So WHAT'S THE AMAZEMENT?????????????

last week i noticed that Ember is in a new place in town.  Ember's Herb Shop.  and i thought about how she has Bach Flower Remedies.  And i thought about maybe it's a good time for that.  But as i am,  i just let that thought float.  Like sometimes i think i might benefit from taking an aspirin.  But then just don't.  and stuff resolves of it's own accord.   Yesterday, tho, i got the little yellow pamphlet off the shelf and as i do,  read through all the Positive Potentials.  This is how i choose a remedy.  Not the description of the turmoil,  but Positive Potentials.  What do i WANT to achieve?????

Back to Red Chestnut

 

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i read this yesterday and then again this morning.  I went off to WORK Away and then into town and driving by Ember's Herb Shop,  i didn't stop.   I came back and stopped at the end of the road neighborhood mail box and in my box was a card from Michelle and in that was a few SEEDS of the Sweet Pea Bush….SWEET PEA! AND JUST THE THOUGHT,  SWEET PEA,  was so Wonderful and i came home here to take that 20 min nap that i do and i did and i woke and SUN was coming in to this home…like honey flowing…and i lie there in complete EASE.   it 

lasted.

i noticed it's lasting.  The intrusive anxiety was GONE.   GONE.  and i thought how

AMAZING

it's just Gone.  and i though how if it is just GONE,  then it can STAY GONE,  or,  if i need it, it can come back.   But it is not a THING.  it's a creation of my mind,  a habitual response….NOT a THING that is REAL.  And though i might have said,  intellectually,  all that,  the reality was different.  

But here, now,  it's 6:18 pm and it's still GONE.   Will it stay that way?  Who knows.  but it's amazing and it is so so Interesting.

Maybe Acey will weigh in here?????

 

 

 

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20 responses to “an Amazement”

  1. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    that worry thing. and how we must remind ourselves to trust in the resilience of others. . .of the goats

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  2. grace Avatar

    yes…to trust THEM. THEIR resilience…
    it’s not all about ME

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  3. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    it will be beautiful when you are all safely together in California. . . . .

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  5. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    google tells me this..
    17 hours 37 minutes..1.191.8 miles via I 40 or
    18 hours 35 minutes…1.209 via I 5 N and I 19 W
    a long way..but maybe with multiple drivers..i do not know the logistics of moving goats so far..it is aways with bated breath that we move the steer between our house and breezy meadows..but they are so huge and the distance so short..
    bated breath..subdued breathing with high emotions…
    .a planning session with the vet..with farmers or internet friends..will check with people here as well..much love..a good thing red chestnut
    gentle day grace

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  6. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Giving it all to the … just going is something you seem to be very good at Grace. But this … this is huge! I read every day with amazement that in your mind you are working out the what if’so so when the time come you’ll be JUST GOING to California… goats and all!

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    hmmm… I would try doing the straight through trip, in 1976 I moved from Melbourne to Adelaide, my horse Stormy did the trip in a racehorse transport as he had done moving from Melbourne to Sydney in 1971, then from Sydney to Melbourne in 1973. He was always difficult to load but with patience and time he would get on the truck. For some unknown reason I will never understand the transport driver unloaded him halfway to Adelaide then couldn’t get him back on the truck so he left Stormy in a holding yard for a week before someone managed to get him back in a truck!

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  8. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Yes, I would think if they were let out of the trailer halfway–they would never get back in. Animals have a different sense of “time” from humans so they will deal with it.

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  9. dee Avatar

    OMG I gotta get me some of that flower essence — it so speaks to what I need to calm! As for anxiety about a complex thing that will happen in time and space with mechanical events like driving and moving, I find research goes a looooooooooong way to easing my mind. Of course you want to know! It’s important!

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  10. grace Avatar

    oh how i loved looking at these numbers this morning.
    FACTS. NUMBERS. HOURS. i love. i love love love. they give perspective….even if it’s LONG. FACTS.
    Jenny took the Goats TO California from N Mex. Then Jenny and I
    brought them Back to N Mex. We drove straight through but that was from near Vasalia. There is something above that, north,
    called the GrapeVine. Neither Alyssia nor Jenny want to do that ever again. And they are Fierce.
    so….how it might go.
    but today, it has become….How It Might Go. Rather than a tangle of the Imagination. Today it’s roads on the MAP. ok.

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  11. grace Avatar

    yep….we will be. Just Going. and we will Arrive.

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  12. grace Avatar

    straight through…it’s the best. But you never know. You can just never know.

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  13. grace Avatar

    this is Beauty FULL, joanne…a reminder of the difference in the sense of time….for them, it is just what it is. I remember
    when Jenny and i got back HERE from bringing them from California and backed the trailer in and let them OUT…how they just WENT!
    Just WENT! and in the next day, it was Where They Were….so
    yes. and Thank you for saying this….

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  14. grace Avatar

    try to find it. It’s REAL.
    it helps me…the knowing. it’s just how i am.

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  15. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Bach Rescue Pastilles for natural stress relief has helped me through many stressful times. Love your posts and work …

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  16. grace Avatar

    Flowers.
    Flowers.
    Flowers.
    how so totally Amazing, isn’t it. Flowers.
    Love Life

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  17. cathy Avatar

    Bach Flower Essences. I had known of them and now remember. I need to get some Red Chestnut and slip it in my mother’s tea.
    What a vision: you and the goats and that oh-so-cool copper red trailer.

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  18. grace Avatar

    i wonder if that would work…to slip it in someone’s tea?????
    Interesting….i wonder. Or does it take volitional intention?
    yes. it will be an EVENT. an oh so cool copper red Event

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  19. cathy Avatar

    Oh, my bad sense of humor…no I wouldn’t do that. But a good question about intention.

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  20. grace Avatar

    not bad at all. Why NOT? slip it???? but would it work that
    way???
    that’s what i wonder. It MIGHT. and wouldn’t that be the BEST.
    a Correction is a Correction.

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