>

Hi Landon from your mate in Australia  

> So good to hear from you as well. If I had any
> specific news I can't
> remember what it is now. I am doing quite well and
> quite a bit better than
> many, so I do feel blessed for sure.

This sounds so good Landon. I have often wondered how we move from a state of unhappiness to a state of gratitude. But gratitude is the attitude for sure and for sure you sound just fine with it all.
>
> As I believe you mentioned to me, becoming more
> aware of specific concerns
> related to my mental and physical health has
> improved my quality of life
> dramatically. All the right things have stayed the
> same or got better and
> all the more miserable troubles have evaporated . I
> am learning to focus
> less and less on "becoming normal" and more and more
> on simply
> developing/learning new responses to common
> stressors, a process which I am
> anticipating more and more with welcome as it is and
> will be ever more
> complimentary to the vast emotional experiences I
> have undergone over the
> course of my life.

If I have had any tiny part in this then I am sincerely honoured and delighted but clearly all the really hard work is yours. Just every now and then something or someone pops into our lives at the precise moment we need the. I am inclined to call them angels. Some folks call it co-incidence, yet others call it meaningful co-incidence.

I believe a beautiful female
> author/scholar named Duane
> Elgin <book - Awakening Earth> refers to this
> process as "socializing the
> cosmic self", an overarching pattern of instinctual
> response to our society
> and its place in the broader picture of our cultural
> evolution as a species
> that satisfies all of its constituent elements e.g.
> practical concerns,
> family relationships, mental well being, personal
> fulfillment, sense of
> place, time, place in time etc. In other words,
> ancient rite, which I ever
> more strongly believe is present, hardwired into
> every social custom known
> to humanity. Enough said. I do indulge myself.

Please do not think of the joy almost ecstacy when we come to this awareness as indulgence. It isn't indulgence it is a birthright but we have had to learn it so it seems kind of artificial and we 'seem' indulgent. Whatever we call it, isn't it sensational!!!!!!

> Please. How are you. What kind of work are you
> engaged in presently and our
> your troubles down under over as well? Even the
> simplest tidbit of
> information is a joy to me.

I am very well. My work is coming along nicely. Maybe I mentioned to you that I have left the psychiatry research department after a very long and wonderful association to start my own private practice. This was a dream for a long time but in the middle of last year I launched myself on this magic carpet ride and I am loving it. I am now feeling more confident as I go along and I am acquiring expertise with every step of the way. My special area of interest is couples. They are known as hard work in the industry since they have such wonderful ways of sweeping problems under the carpet until they are huge mounds of dirt and the coughing and spluttering that goes on and the clouds of dust that rise up around the issues as they need to do the cleaning make for an interesting if messy process. I am going to the ACA = Australian Counselling Association next Saturday for our bi monthly meeting. This meeting is in two parts the educational input and the administration bit. Next week I am doing the presentation and I will use that cleaning up metaphor. To be honest I hadn't used it before so talking to you has meant that I have done half the work for next week. See how we help one another ..isn't it wonderful.

> Be well and thank you again for your wise advice to
> me.

If I have done anything at all I consider I am honoured to have done so.

And thanks to you for being so patient in waiting for this reply.

Jane Walton

New South Wales Australia

> Landon in the Valley
>
> ps. i'm living back on the mainland now, in my
> original home, the Fraser
> Valley (Abbotsford)

 

 

 

ps. that reminds me, i'm not even sure if he is Australian but do you ever catch that croc guy on television? I really like him.