viv66

viv66

35p

32 comments posted · 0 followers · following 0

10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Going Against the Curr... · 1 reply · +1 points

Alas, I have only the readers' edition, without pictures. The *proper* edition is on my wish list because at over a £100 a copy (I saw some for a little less) it's probably something to save up for.
I've mostly been dreaming about getting on trains, then discovering that the group I am meant to be supervising are no longer with me and I may be on the wrong train!

10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Going Against the Curr... · 3 replies · +1 points

I'm working my way through The Red Book at present so this article is very helpful.
As I am doing so, my own dreams are taking on some very interesting colours.
Bravo, Jean. Lovely and more than that, helpful;

11 years ago @ The Masquerade Crew - Has Amazon taken down ... · 1 reply · +2 points

I'm now very wary of writing another review ever again for Amazon. As far as I know, none I have written have vanished, nor have any of my books' reviews. THis all seems insane overkill for what was a probably self regulating problem at least longer term.
Lots of reviews on Amazon read like school book reports, detailing the plot etc and going over what the synopsis and blurb actually said. I find reading these ones miserable going because they don't tell me anything useful. Author reviews tend to be much more interesting than this sort.
I do wonder if this will just die down or escalate.
Watching this space.

11 years ago @ The Masquerade Crew - Have your book sales p... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hmmm.
I've never made a book free (though I have said on my blog I'm happy to send a copy pdf to someone who genuinely cannot afford to buy one) and don't intend to. It's counter intuitive to me and I do very much wonder if people are currently buying less because they have so much free already.
But for myself, the odd thing I pick up free, unless it's something I urgently wanted to read anyway, tends to wait along while till I've gone through the things I paid money for.

11 years ago @ http://www.prdaily.com/ - 3 groups of people who... · 0 replies · +1 points

I find grammar nazis a little alarming because they often seem to focus on the bit of lint they feel is spoiling your $1000 suit. It often seems a disproportionately intense reaction, especially when it's for a tweet or something essentially ephemeral.
I teach English to overseas students, and when I mark written work I often see students lose confidence because of the amount of red ink and have to explain that I am correcting everything but that I feel the body of their work is excellent, that I am interested in their ideas more than their spelling but I would not be doing my job if I did not correct errors of grammar etc.
A refreshing take, thank you.

12 years ago @ Beyond Growth - Overdosing on Awesome · 0 replies · +1 points

I've never liked the word awesome; it's a lazy teenage word.
My evil ex-boss used to pepper her conversations with it.
I rest my case.
My recent post Guesting elsewhere today the grit at the heart of the pearl

13 years ago @ The Daily Awe - I'm an empath...so now... · 2 replies · +1 points

That's a good question. Off hand I am not aware of having dreamed about good stuff at all. I do have good dreams, sometimes, and I have dreamed of future things that have been effectively neutral.
I have a problem with sleep anyway, so maybe there is a limit to what can come through.

13 years ago @ The Daily Awe - I'm an empath...so now... · 0 replies · +1 points

The really frustrating dreams are the ones where you see something you know is both significant and important but have no means of actually using it in a practical manner; this sort drive me mad because I KNOW something but can take no action to take it further. I've dreamed of murders, even, but when you wake knowing you have seen something you cannot possibly explain, you are left with the fact that even the most open police officer will not be open to it.
And the other harsh thing is seeing things "remotely" that you are not trained or prepared to deal with. Many years ago during the Bosnian conflict, a friend of mine served as ambulance crew dealing with atrocities: for several months, even though I didn't know that's where he was and what he was doing, I saw snippets of what he saw during his days during my nightmares. It was only when he came home on leave I discovered what had been going on. At the time, I genuinely thought I might have been going insane.
That's where prayer comes in to help deal with this stuff. I probably would be in a mental institution otherwise by now.

13 years ago @ The Daily Awe - I'm an empath...so now... · 1 reply · +1 points

personal rituals can also help; setting up a "shield" when you feel you need it, as well as regular state of being checks so you can spot when you need to withdraw and recharge.
Knowing yourself too; to be able to distinguish when an emotion is not your own and belongs to someone else.
Not saying it's easy, because it isn't. I am still working on surviving it. The hardest aspects now are the ones when insights come at a distance, or via dreams or visions and it's essential to work out how much needs action taking and how much just needs accepting.

13 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Sympathy for Stephen · 0 replies · +1 points

....my take on that, Sue, is~ quality versus quantity!