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Old 05-14-2004, 11:28 AM   #9
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The time you have taken, to gift me with these notes of encouragement quicken my heart! What comfort to know that this dryness is not a bad thing, is normal and can be transforming.

Your solid advice brought to mind what I have learned in my practice of yoga. In yoga, there are days when the body is resistant. If I try to push myself too far, I risk injury. Yoga teaches me to relax into the pose and go only as far as my body comfortably allows me to go. Some days that's not very far!! Inevitably, following this "stiff" period, is a burst of growth. All of a sudden I can sink further into a pose than I have ever gone before, and there is an awakening of wonderful energy.

The recent drawing on my easel is Christine. She is beautiful. I want to do her beauty justice. But at the same time the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship is tender and just beginning to blossom. It is psyching me out!! So last night I put it aside.

I am going to take all of your adice and relax, keep the visual journal going, relax, turn off the mental tapes, relax, and "let the flow take over"!!

God's blessings on all of you!!
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