Comments on: Empty http://eileenvalazza.com/2010/02/empty/ Love & Greens Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Miechelle http://eileenvalazza.com/2010/02/empty/#comment-526 Miechelle Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:47:04 +0000 http://soulsleuthing.com/?p=2781#comment-526 It's a very peaceful thing you describe and very hard to achieve in my opinion so relish it while it lasts. I remember reading some little spiritual mantra once about how we have to understand that life is about pushes forward and then the stillness of consolidation and about how we must relish both because they are both integral to living successfully. I fight the consolidation times though, I struggle with them. Society has taught me that I only have meaning and worth when I am striving for something or doing something so "just" striving for stability so that I can make my next push doesn't feel "good enough". I hope to recover from this one day :) It’s a very peaceful thing you describe and very hard to achieve in my opinion so relish it while it lasts. I remember reading some little spiritual mantra once about how we have to understand that life is about pushes forward and then the stillness of consolidation and about how we must relish both because they are both integral to living successfully. I fight the consolidation times though, I struggle with them. Society has taught me that I only have meaning and worth when I am striving for something or doing something so “just” striving for stability so that I can make my next push doesn’t feel “good enough”. I hope to recover from this one day :)

]]> By: Eileen http://eileenvalazza.com/2010/02/empty/#comment-525 Eileen Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:48:34 +0000 http://soulsleuthing.com/?p=2781#comment-525 @Kelly--exactly! Feels like I'm just running around the empty metaphorical-house giddy about all the space. @Joyce "gossamer hammock"...ah. Sigh. Love your imagery my dear :) @Amber--ah, me too...I have no idea where this came from :P @Danielle-- thanks sweetie! love that you're here too :) @Pearl Oooh, yeah, physical space is totally related! Good point. @Kelly–exactly! Feels like I’m just running around the empty metaphorical-house giddy about all the space.

@Joyce “gossamer hammock”…ah. Sigh. Love your imagery my dear :)

@Amber–ah, me too…I have no idea where this came from :P

@Danielle– thanks sweetie! love that you’re here too :)

@Pearl Oooh, yeah, physical space is totally related! Good point.

]]> By: Pearl Mattenson http://eileenvalazza.com/2010/02/empty/#comment-524 Pearl Mattenson Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:19:45 +0000 http://soulsleuthing.com/?p=2781#comment-524 I love that you posit different kinds of empty. What has happened to me is assume the empty I am feeling is the bad kind. What else have I known? To judge it immediately and think my job is to fill it up. I am not there now but I love the idea of examining the empty to see what kind it is. Might be time for an emptying of my physical surroundings to spark the inner process.! I love that you posit different kinds of empty. What has happened to me is assume the empty I am feeling is the bad kind. What else have I known? To judge it immediately and think my job is to fill it up. I am not there now but I love the idea of examining the empty to see what kind it is. Might be time for an emptying of my physical surroundings to spark the inner process.!

]]> By: Danielle http://eileenvalazza.com/2010/02/empty/#comment-523 Danielle Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:44:25 +0000 http://soulsleuthing.com/?p=2781#comment-523 "Even my goals from just last month have shifted. Or not shifted so much as untied, dropped away. Like I can’t imagine holding something so tightly." I've been feeling this same thing! Thanks for putting into words this odd little sensation I've been having. It was exactly what I needed to hear. :) Danielle “Even my goals from just last month have shifted. Or not shifted so much as untied, dropped away. Like I can’t imagine holding something so tightly.”

I’ve been feeling this same thing! Thanks for putting into words this odd little sensation I’ve been having. It was exactly what I needed to hear.
:)

Danielle

]]> By: Amber http://eileenvalazza.com/2010/02/empty/#comment-522 Amber Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:24:32 +0000 http://soulsleuthing.com/?p=2781#comment-522 I don't think I have felt that way, but I think I would like to. I still hold on to things more tightly than is probably best for me. .-= Amber´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.strocel.com/grocery-store-allegiances/" rel="nofollow">Grocery Store Allegiances</a> =-. I don’t think I have felt that way, but I think I would like to. I still hold on to things more tightly than is probably best for me.
.-= Amber´s last blog ..Grocery Store Allegiances =-.

]]> By: joyce lukaczer http://eileenvalazza.com/2010/02/empty/#comment-521 joyce lukaczer Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:52:08 +0000 http://soulsleuthing.com/?p=2781#comment-521 ah, but this sweet infusion of souly-sleuthing does indeed describe the gossamer hammock upon which i swing :) ah, but this sweet infusion of souly-sleuthing does indeed describe the gossamer hammock upon which i swing :)

]]> By: Kelly Parkinson http://eileenvalazza.com/2010/02/empty/#comment-520 Kelly Parkinson Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:45:48 +0000 http://soulsleuthing.com/?p=2781#comment-520 I've been feeling this way lately, too--a lot. It's this reorientation to myself--and to my business--that says, I don't really care about goals anymore. And that's where I think the emptiness is coming up. Because all of that space used to be taken up by this GIGANTIC UGLY FURNITURE! GOALS!!! So heavy and so important! And now they're gone, and it feels kind of weird. But weird in a good way. There's way more room to move around. I know this is a good thing. But I'm not entirely used to it yet, so I think there's just going to be this period of, 'Where is everything? Oh, right, I gave it to the Goodwill because it was ugly.' I trust the right stuff will come back in again. Just for now, I have permission to have a kind of empty living room. I’ve been feeling this way lately, too–a lot. It’s this reorientation to myself–and to my business–that says, I don’t really care about goals anymore. And that’s where I think the emptiness is coming up. Because all of that space used to be taken up by this GIGANTIC UGLY FURNITURE! GOALS!!! So heavy and so important! And now they’re gone, and it feels kind of weird. But weird in a good way. There’s way more room to move around. I know this is a good thing. But I’m not entirely used to it yet, so I think there’s just going to be this period of, ‘Where is everything? Oh, right, I gave it to the Goodwill because it was ugly.’ I trust the right stuff will come back in again. Just for now, I have permission to have a kind of empty living room.

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