Busy, busy, busy, busy, ever feel like that?
By writersedge
@writersedge (22563)
United States
July 23, 2012 10:41am CST
I went to the alternative healer and started a very restrictive diet for two weeks. Then a less restrictive one that I'm trying not to cheat on. The less restrictive is mostly no refined sugar and flour. I started getting more energy. IT's wonderful!
Then I got ring worm which is not actually a worm-it's a misnomer-it's a fungus. My cat scratches trees with it and the next thing I know, he looses his footing and I get a claw. So I had to go to a dr. and there were none open in my area so I had to drive to another area. Why didn't I just wait? Because the itching was driving me out of my mind.
So I've been catching up on the mountain of dirty dishes and dirty clothes that I finally have some kind of energy to get done.
Then a beginning meditation and introduction to Shamanism class came up and I wanted to go to that very badly. Then another Healing Circle came up.
I helped a friend to get all my old jobs. I let her know about the into to Alzheimer's class and intro to taking care of a person with Alzheimers. Then someone called me and asked if I knew a trustworthy person who could take care of someone so the person who called could go on vacation. She went for an interview and with my recommendation, she got the job.
Meanwhile, trying to tutor or teach people hasn't been working out very well. I'm 54 1/2. I think when I reach 55, I'll definitely give up teaching in all forms. Students cost me money when I'm supposed to meet them and they don't show up. People who say they want to learn and then don't or fight you all the way. I have no patience for that. Also people want "Master Teachers" now and I would have to go back to school and prove I'm a Master Teacher despite 30 years of experience. Plus I would need to take on a student teacher and other than subbing, I don't even have a school that I do to each day, so I can't do that.
So have you ever gone to an alternative healer? Please relate your experience if you have.
Have you ever helped someone else get a job? How did that work out? Have you ever been very busy? Have you ever itched so much you thought you were going to go out of your mind? Have you ever decided that your life's work or any work is just not right for you and have you searched to find out what that is?
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
24 Jul 12
I have not ever felt I had a life's work except to parent my kids. I have worked in positions that were thrilling and stimulating and inspiring, but then they burned out quickly. I have helped a friend get her own dream job quite a few years ago.I think my calling is to be a friend. The closest I come to alternative healing is the chiropractor, but he does good work and is effective with what he does for me. I have gotten dry skin lately and that itches a lot. I have had allergies to things and they have itched a lot, but the thing that bothered me most was an unexplained itch on the top of my foot. I do not know when it went away, but I am afraid it may come back again. Perhaps I was tying my shoes so tight they were pinching a nerve.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
25 Jul 12
The chiropractor I see now has a variety of training, and I know some of it is different types of massage. He taught my husband a scraping technique and myofascial release when I was in a huge amount of arm and shoulder pain. He even thought it might be a torn rotator cuff, but doing the scraping and pressure points fixed my shoulder in less than two weeks, and it was not my shoulder hubby scraped and pointed but various places on my back.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
24 Jul 12
Sometimes something gets into a shoe that you're allergic to and that could be it. Just walking along.
Hadn't thought of being a friend as a life's calling. Something to think about. I think parenting children is definitely a life's calling.
Alternative healers, Chiropractors are starting to get acceptance and are almost reg healers, but not really. Most of them believe in alt healing. So they're like 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. Their history of not being accepted by the medical community makes them sort of in that realm, but moving toward the other. Luckily, they don't prescribe meds yet. I like that they get me out of pain so I don't need any meds.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
25 Jul 12
Yes, one of mine has applied kinestology and that is really cool. You can get answers, but I'm still trying to formulate the questions.
@francesca5 (1344)
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23 Jul 12
i have helped a couple of people get jobs, they were boyfriends at the time, but haven't been in a long time, though they are still doing those jobs, not that they are remotely grateful! i think the act of ending the relationship stopped the gratitude thing from developing.
no i have never been to an alternative healer, but i probably will one day, as i am quite susceptible to negative energy these days, so i have to try clearing chakras every day to get rid of it, so a good healer might be quite useful.
as for following the wrong path, well i have done a lot of that, i tried being a teacher once, fortunately i was so bad at it, it didn't last long, and i tried being a secretary but i wasn't any good at that either. so now i play the guitar and sing folk songs, and other contemporary songs, which sort of suits me, except that i had to overcome so many fears, including fears that i didn't even know i had, but that was quite useful.
though that was something i would have done when i was younger, if i had had more confidence, so deciding to do it just seemed right, though it has been very hard, it now just feels right.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
23 Jul 12
So how do you clear your chakras every day, that sounds like a very good activity for me to try?
Great that you found what your'e good at.
I've usually had boyfriends who were employed, thank goodness.
@francesca5 (1344)
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23 Jul 12
there are quite a lot of different ways you can do it, i found a book or two, on it, you can use yoga, or meditation and sort of breathe in the different colours of the chakras, or other visualisation techniques, or music, there are quite a lot of different ways of doing it.
i find that after i have done it i definitely have more energy, so it may be worth trying.
as for the boyfriends, one of them did already have a job, i just helped him get a better one, but he was never grateful!
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
23 Jul 12
We could really use your job getting skills up here. A better one and not grateful, how ungrateful!
The latest thing up here is raising your vibration and it sounds like that, many ways to do it and people feel way better afterward.
@cher913 (25781)
• Canada
23 Jul 12
yup, i feel like that a lot. i feel as if my life is on fast forward and then sometimes it is on slow motion lol.
i think lots of people switch up their careers in the middle of them these days. long gone are the days of job security and when an employer goes hunting themselves. my uncle (he passed away almost 20 years ago) was actively sought with in a number of companies. those days are gone.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
24 Jul 12
Yes, those days of being sought after are gone. I remember having three job offers at once all in one week. Those were exciting days. Yes, my life is in different speeds to be sure.
Oh I've changed careers a lot. Correction Officer for the county and so on.
