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Date Posted: 21:06:56 04/11/03 Fri
Author: jo
Subject: Re: Am feeling all alone
In reply to: robin 's message, "Re: Am feeling all alone" on 14:58:08 04/10/03 Thu

Robin, it's taken me a while to answer you since your simple question brought up a lot of thoughts for me and I wanted to work through them before answering you so I could be a little coherent. LOL! About six years ago I embarked on a journey toward simple living; each year I am able to peel away more and more "stuff" and now that I'm not working and am waiting for my disablity to be approved, I have even more time to peel, pare and whittle. As my living becomes more simple, I find I need less and less stimulation, one reason getting rid of the TV was so easy. Coffee - gone. Black teas - gone. Still drinking green teas. And much of that stimulation-lessness includes music. Have known for years that music works on many levels, emotional, spiritual, etc., (which I suspect you know). One way in which music acts as a drug is in producing adrenalin (spelling is wrong, hopefully you'll know what I mean)which is why the musical beats are becoming faster and faster -- we acclimate to one (the waltz), then need rag time to "jazz" us up, then in a faster and faster progression to rap and its related genres. As a society we are not used to silence - it makes us uncomfortable. For me silence allows me to hear my soul - so mostly, I don't listen to music. I like the silence and listening to the birds, the traffic (I live on a relatively busy street and can tell the day, the time of day and the weather conditions from the sounds the traffic makes passing my apartment). When I need to be speeded up - say to clean the house -- then old 60s/70s rock (Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt) or Willie Nelson or Glenn Miller. To work in the kitchen, it's more Willie Nelson's "StarDust" or Enya. For general background music, if I think to put some on -- then it's classical (esp. Pablo Casals' recordings of the Beethoven cello pieces), or Wynton Marsylis (opps, bad spelling again) on Baroque trumpet. Also like some Sufi chanting, some Georgorian chanting, Hildegard von Bingen chants by women choirs. When I worked in an office, background music was the classical station. Recently I read a comment by the poet Wendall Berry that the proper amount of human noise was that which allowed other noises to be heard. But mostly, it's silence.

As far as fung shei goes -- it's a matter of being sensitive to your environment. Like you being able to notice the difference between your bedroom with a TV and without. If one knows about chi and the flow of energy in a body, then feng shui is to take the next step and sense the flow of energy in one's environment. There are schools of fung shui and many practitioners make it sound difficult because that's how they make money (general statement that may not be true in a specific practitioner). But if you can sense: how does this room feel to me? Does my home welcome me? Is it a refuge? Does this home/room/area regenerate me and uplift me or do I just want to leave it as soon as possible? All that's feg shui -- the rest is just details (which really are pretty easy to learn - I'll be glad to recommend some books to you).

Sorry for the long answer, it may be more than you ever wanted!! jo

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