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GPS for the Soul - The Huffington Post
Ride the Thunder: The Art of Transforming Your Life
About one year ago, my partner had a serious health problem. He was diagnosed with pneumonia, and he had to stay in the hospital for an entire month. Facing financial problems (something which is inevitable these days) and fearing for your partner's life is not an easy situation and certainly not one that you anticipate or are prepared for. You can't deal with one problem at a time, in this case; you don't have the option. So, what do you do?
What I did, was ask for help from a higher being (or higher spirit or guide, you can give it any name you like). That wasn't very difficult for me, because I happen to believe in the spiritual plane and have read many interesting books on the subject -- including the ancient Greeks, Plato, Pythagoras and the pre-socratic philosophers.
All of them, in their own words, described the infinite nature of spirit that also exists in man and woman. We have the answers. We know what has to be done. We know how we should be reacting. We just need to connect, which is an entirely different matter, because we all have our own way to connect to things and don't need to follow in somebody else's footsteps. Some of us might connect through our work and others through family or any other way.
The main thing, though, is to be aware of something that is greater than the everyday problems we face (or than the things that we believe to be important). There is something higher, and we are connected to that, we are a part of that. But, still, it takes a life threatening situation to realize it.
I lived day-by-day, pushing myself, asking for guidance, making mistakes, searching for solutions, connecting to people and feeling a wind behind me taking me farther. There is no easy way, but "easy" might be a fantasy word.
So, why do we have to go through all of these difficulties? I believe we need to because this is how we become better. We need to learn to "run faster" than our problems, the pain, the obstacles. We need to become Hermes with wings in our feet. We need to broaden our thoughts; we need to incorporate in them the spirit.
When Zeus sends a thunder down on you (to create a poetic picture in what otherwise is pretty agonizing) he sends you a message: "This is the way". The thunder opens up a road for you, and if you want to go through the situation alive, you have to ride the thunder. Failing to do that means you have to go through the situation again and again, until you decide to act in a certain way.
What helped me through the hurricane was an inner voice coming from a place unknown to me, like the "daemon" of Socrates. For the question, "How can he get over his illness and get well again?" the answer was: "He needs to remember his true self."
To do that one has to follow these three steps:
Step 1: Take the garbage out of the house -- get rid of all of the things that you know no longer serve you. These could be ugly thoughts, negative feelings or even objects that take too much of your space.
Step 2: Take a good look at yourself. Look as if you have never seen yourself before, and ask yourself: "Who am I really?"
Step 3: Awaken the spirit inside you, because there is a divine self in you who is fast asleep. When you do this you can contact the higher power because it listens only to its equal -- it can only listen to the divine spirit inside you.
When you take these three steps, you can acquire power, genius, alertness, consciousness and protection for you and your kin (and a desire to help your fellow men and women). This is the first and simplest initiation.
What my inner voice told me is that we need to stay focused on our truest self. When we stray from our core self, we fill ourselves with anger, anxiety and stress, which affects our mental and physical health.
The only way to be creative is to get in touch with our true self. And we get in touch with the true self only when we get rid of all the "garbage" that we have collected over time. In this way, what you become after going through all the difficulties you encounter in life is actually an initiated person.
So, my partner got better and had to start all over again, feeling weak but also stronger, no matter how contradicting that sounds. Life, after all, is full of contradictions and men and women have to go through it with the knowledge that nothing is in vain, nothing is by accident and we are all destined to be the best we can.
What I did, was ask for help from a higher being (or higher spirit or guide, you can give it any name you like). That wasn't very difficult for me, because I happen to believe in the spiritual plane and have read many interesting books on the subject -- including the ancient Greeks, Plato, Pythagoras and the pre-socratic philosophers.
All of them, in their own words, described the infinite nature of spirit that also exists in man and woman. We have the answers. We know what has to be done. We know how we should be reacting. We just need to connect, which is an entirely different matter, because we all have our own way to connect to things and don't need to follow in somebody else's footsteps. Some of us might connect through our work and others through family or any other way.
The main thing, though, is to be aware of something that is greater than the everyday problems we face (or than the things that we believe to be important). There is something higher, and we are connected to that, we are a part of that. But, still, it takes a life threatening situation to realize it.
I lived day-by-day, pushing myself, asking for guidance, making mistakes, searching for solutions, connecting to people and feeling a wind behind me taking me farther. There is no easy way, but "easy" might be a fantasy word.
So, why do we have to go through all of these difficulties? I believe we need to because this is how we become better. We need to learn to "run faster" than our problems, the pain, the obstacles. We need to become Hermes with wings in our feet. We need to broaden our thoughts; we need to incorporate in them the spirit.
When Zeus sends a thunder down on you (to create a poetic picture in what otherwise is pretty agonizing) he sends you a message: "This is the way". The thunder opens up a road for you, and if you want to go through the situation alive, you have to ride the thunder. Failing to do that means you have to go through the situation again and again, until you decide to act in a certain way.
What helped me through the hurricane was an inner voice coming from a place unknown to me, like the "daemon" of Socrates. For the question, "How can he get over his illness and get well again?" the answer was: "He needs to remember his true self."
To do that one has to follow these three steps:
Step 1: Take the garbage out of the house -- get rid of all of the things that you know no longer serve you. These could be ugly thoughts, negative feelings or even objects that take too much of your space.
Step 2: Take a good look at yourself. Look as if you have never seen yourself before, and ask yourself: "Who am I really?"
Step 3: Awaken the spirit inside you, because there is a divine self in you who is fast asleep. When you do this you can contact the higher power because it listens only to its equal -- it can only listen to the divine spirit inside you.
When you take these three steps, you can acquire power, genius, alertness, consciousness and protection for you and your kin (and a desire to help your fellow men and women). This is the first and simplest initiation.
What my inner voice told me is that we need to stay focused on our truest self. When we stray from our core self, we fill ourselves with anger, anxiety and stress, which affects our mental and physical health.
The only way to be creative is to get in touch with our true self. And we get in touch with the true self only when we get rid of all the "garbage" that we have collected over time. In this way, what you become after going through all the difficulties you encounter in life is actually an initiated person.
So, my partner got better and had to start all over again, feeling weak but also stronger, no matter how contradicting that sounds. Life, after all, is full of contradictions and men and women have to go through it with the knowledge that nothing is in vain, nothing is by accident and we are all destined to be the best we can.
Good News - The Huffington Post
Thousands Across Country Dive Into Freezing Water To Raise Funds For Mo. Boy With Cancer
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — An effort to help the family of a 5-month-old Missouri boy with cancer has inspired thousands of people across the U.S. and even abroad to take a plunge into cold bodies of water.
Organizers of the Facebook-based Plunge for Landon fundraiser said they have lost count of how many people have posted videos of themselves taking a dive for Landon Shaw, an infant from Tarkio, Missouri, who was diagnosed in late February with a rare form of cancer. People are jumping in, from chilly farm ponds north of Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico and the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. "I can't believe how viral this is going," said Alyssa Shaw, Landon's mom. "My son has been such an inspiration to everybody and opened up people's eyes that you can't take life for granted."
Before they jump into the water, participants record themselves challenging three other people to do the same, with monetary pledges for each person who completes the challenge. The effort had raised more than $30,000 by Friday evening, only five days after notice of the fundraiser was first posted on the popular social networking site.
Entire schools, police departments and businesses around the region have posted videos of participants taking the plunge.
Landon was 4 months old on Feb. 23 when his parents took him to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City to find out why he was vomiting and losing weight. Doctors found a tumor on his left kidney, which they removed, and later discovered a large mass on his brain.
Landon's heart stopped during an operation to remove the brain tumor, his mother said, and he lost so much blood that doctors gave the family little hope their baby would survive.
"The surgeons came into the room and said they would be surprised if he made it through the night," Shaw said.
Landon did make it through, and his condition improved enough that on April 1, Shaw and her husband, Brandon, were able to bring their baby home.
But the child still has a long road ahead, with chemotherapy sessions, MRIs and CT scans. And the family is on Medicaid, Shaw said, which isn't nearly enough to cover medical bills that are just starting to arrive. Medicaid is the government program that provides health care coverage for lower-income Americans.
The plunge group's Facebook page had more than 11,700 members Friday, seven times the number of people who live in the small farming community of Tarkio, two hours north of Kansas City.
Lydia Hurst, who helps maintain the group's page, said participants include a soldier in Afghanistan, and people in Germany, South Korea, Spain and Ireland.
Ty Rowton, also known as the red tight-wearing Kansas City Chiefs football team super fan "X-Factor," dove into a pond near Bonner Springs, Kansas, on Friday after being challenged by several people he didn't know. In turn, he challenged the Kansas City Royals baseball team, the Chiefs and all their fans to also chip in to help baby Landon.
Hurst took her own plunge Tuesday morning in sub-freezing temperatures. Like most people she knows who did their own plunges, she said she never would have jumped into a frigid farm pond had it not been for the thought of the little boy.
"My legs got numb faster than I thought they would," she said. "It was shocking. I went home and showered and didn't get warm until about noon that day."
Residents of the former college town of roughly 1,600 also have been holding bake sales and fundraising suppers — popular affairs in rural Bible Belt communities — to help the family pay for travel and other expenses. But the plunge drive has brought in the bulk of donations.
A YouTube video shows U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, a lifelong Tarkio resident, in a suit and tie as he dove head-first into the Potomac in Washington on Wednesday. He challenged several Republican leaders, both nationally and in Missouri, to take the plunge.
Lora Cummins, a former Tarkio resident who is an ordained minister and beach body coach in Port Aransas, Texas, accepted the challenge of some of her ex-classmates in the town and jumped into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday.
"All of us are so fortunate to have grown up there and forged lifelong bonds," she said. "Facebook has brought us all back together."
Organizers of the Facebook-based Plunge for Landon fundraiser said they have lost count of how many people have posted videos of themselves taking a dive for Landon Shaw, an infant from Tarkio, Missouri, who was diagnosed in late February with a rare form of cancer. People are jumping in, from chilly farm ponds north of Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico and the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. "I can't believe how viral this is going," said Alyssa Shaw, Landon's mom. "My son has been such an inspiration to everybody and opened up people's eyes that you can't take life for granted."
Before they jump into the water, participants record themselves challenging three other people to do the same, with monetary pledges for each person who completes the challenge. The effort had raised more than $30,000 by Friday evening, only five days after notice of the fundraiser was first posted on the popular social networking site.
Entire schools, police departments and businesses around the region have posted videos of participants taking the plunge.
Landon was 4 months old on Feb. 23 when his parents took him to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City to find out why he was vomiting and losing weight. Doctors found a tumor on his left kidney, which they removed, and later discovered a large mass on his brain.
Landon's heart stopped during an operation to remove the brain tumor, his mother said, and he lost so much blood that doctors gave the family little hope their baby would survive.
"The surgeons came into the room and said they would be surprised if he made it through the night," Shaw said.
Landon did make it through, and his condition improved enough that on April 1, Shaw and her husband, Brandon, were able to bring their baby home.
But the child still has a long road ahead, with chemotherapy sessions, MRIs and CT scans. And the family is on Medicaid, Shaw said, which isn't nearly enough to cover medical bills that are just starting to arrive. Medicaid is the government program that provides health care coverage for lower-income Americans.
The plunge group's Facebook page had more than 11,700 members Friday, seven times the number of people who live in the small farming community of Tarkio, two hours north of Kansas City.
Lydia Hurst, who helps maintain the group's page, said participants include a soldier in Afghanistan, and people in Germany, South Korea, Spain and Ireland.
Ty Rowton, also known as the red tight-wearing Kansas City Chiefs football team super fan "X-Factor," dove into a pond near Bonner Springs, Kansas, on Friday after being challenged by several people he didn't know. In turn, he challenged the Kansas City Royals baseball team, the Chiefs and all their fans to also chip in to help baby Landon.
Hurst took her own plunge Tuesday morning in sub-freezing temperatures. Like most people she knows who did their own plunges, she said she never would have jumped into a frigid farm pond had it not been for the thought of the little boy.
"My legs got numb faster than I thought they would," she said. "It was shocking. I went home and showered and didn't get warm until about noon that day."
Residents of the former college town of roughly 1,600 also have been holding bake sales and fundraising suppers — popular affairs in rural Bible Belt communities — to help the family pay for travel and other expenses. But the plunge drive has brought in the bulk of donations.
A YouTube video shows U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, a lifelong Tarkio resident, in a suit and tie as he dove head-first into the Potomac in Washington on Wednesday. He challenged several Republican leaders, both nationally and in Missouri, to take the plunge.
Lora Cummins, a former Tarkio resident who is an ordained minister and beach body coach in Port Aransas, Texas, accepted the challenge of some of her ex-classmates in the town and jumped into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday.
"All of us are so fortunate to have grown up there and forged lifelong bonds," she said. "Facebook has brought us all back together."
Weird News - The Huffington Post
'Nerdy Bandit' Arrested After Most Hipster Robbery Of All Time
Police in Portland, Ore., have finally arrested a man known as the "Nerdy Bandit."
Robbery suspect Thaddeus Lindsay-Woods, 31, earned his name because he allegedly stuck up trendy stores while wearing "nerdyish" thick-framed glasses. A composite sketch of the suspect, released before his arrest, also shows him wearing a short-brimmed hat.
"He looks like an average hipster Portlander. He could be anybody," Jamie Shultz, manager at a nearby clothing store, told KPTV.
Lindsay-Woods is accused of robbing two American Apparel stores and one Urban Outfitters in Portland over the course of 10 days in October 2013. Police said he used a gun in one robbery.
In each incident, he is said to have browsed clothing for a few minutes before approaching employees and demanding money.
The suspect was arrested at 5 a.m. on April 4. He is expected to be arraigned Monday on charges of first- and second-degree robbery.
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Robbery suspect Thaddeus Lindsay-Woods, 31, earned his name because he allegedly stuck up trendy stores while wearing "nerdyish" thick-framed glasses. A composite sketch of the suspect, released before his arrest, also shows him wearing a short-brimmed hat.
"He looks like an average hipster Portlander. He could be anybody," Jamie Shultz, manager at a nearby clothing store, told KPTV.
Lindsay-Woods is accused of robbing two American Apparel stores and one Urban Outfitters in Portland over the course of 10 days in October 2013. Police said he used a gun in one robbery.
In each incident, he is said to have browsed clothing for a few minutes before approaching employees and demanding money.
The suspect was arrested at 5 a.m. on April 4. He is expected to be arraigned Monday on charges of first- and second-degree robbery.
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