Hi Everyone, I have been talking to other yogis and teachers and it seems we all have this sense of "waiting" lately....it is mixed with
"longing" and a smidge of loneliness. I would love your opinions about this. Is it part of the human condition...although none of us have felt it so
strongly as now....is it a part of getting "older"...??? Hmmmm.....what is this and is anyone else in our community feeling "it"??? We are
all just moderately busy people....all meditate..etc.....just wondering ????????
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A sense of "waiting"...hmmm
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 patti |
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Posts: 11 (07/03/09 07:53:28) |
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Posts: 2895 (07/03/09 08:04:48) |
Maybe described as the shift of conciousness perhaps?
The hope that others will follow suit and move toward stillness, and greater awareness along the path towards enlightenment?
As long as there is an openness to ourselves and the universe we can fully be the evolved being we were always meant to be...
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Posts: 12 (07/03/09 08:35:28) |
Maybe....I don't know...maybe that is it. Thanks for your imput SimplyBill. Patti
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Posts: 427 (07/03/09 09:39:51) |
I think that, any time you wait for something, the waiting part feels the longest right before it is over. I think the global good events that will inevitably
lead to unity conciousness and universal love are actually starting to ramp up, so this would be the point in time where the wait has most worn out its welcome
in our lives.
But I really believe the good events are beginning to happen at an increased pace that outweighs the forces of disease, ignorance, and false perception of life. At first it was a trickle several years ago, now nearly a flood on some days. At least, they seem to be on my piece of the planet... in ways I truly did not expect and completely amaze me nearly every day. This online community is a shining example of exactly such positive motion.  
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Posts: 13 (07/03/09 09:55:15) |
Wow...Randy...thanks for all the positive thoughts.....I am seeing lots of people here in CA who "get it"...and yes this board is such a great
blessing...you are right..things seem to be ramping up..thanks..Patti
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Posts: 2415 (07/03/09 09:57:22) |
Hello Patti,
I am thinking...what if you choose a different word instead of "waiting"...? A word signifying taking a more active role. Like "anticipation"..."intention"...."possibility"... As for getting older... First of all, consider the alternative...not getting older...hmmmm.... I am anticipating my big 6-OH in September and I am intending to be alive and kickin for a long time! "It's been a great ride so far." |
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Posts: 14 (07/03/09 10:59:02) |
Thanks Susie, I wish I could change the word but the others and I agree that is the best word to describe the feeling. I have to develop a better attitude
about aging...you sound like you have...I am 57 and fighting it. ....I know it isn't the thing to do but I am working on that...just finished a book
called....Getting Over, Getting Older....it helped. And yes the alternative is not so good...ha ha...Thank you for your imput..I love this community...you are
all so wonderful and helpful and supportive...Patti
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Posts: 222 (07/03/09 21:48:50) |
Thank you for hitting a hot button for me....so I offer my 2 cents about 'getting older' ---seams like a scam about cutting off of the life force as
if we need to only honor one time frame of life over another time frame of life....like 20 year olds are more appealing than 62 - 72 -82- 92 -102 year
olds...crazy making...programs....ABOUT aging and death...
One of my perceptions is that some of our political/social/consumer culture might negate or delete the role of the elder( anyone over 30 years old) , the wise one, the senior in the society...our pop culture acts as if that is the only culture -- it could be..... if you want to cut off the last 50- 70 years of life as if there is nothing vital there ( and this can happen )....and that is why...it is sooooo important to honor, cultivate, study, practice, learn, explore, discover, adventure, open up to all the healing arts...like yoga, Reiki, Watsu, Chi Gong and T'ai Chi etc. that deal with the essence of the life force ( Prana/Chi ) ..not just the fashionable pictures of life and living....life is not the latest fashion magazine/tv/movie.....even though these messages seep into our subconsciousness..every day with commercials, billboards, commercial advertisements and shopping malls etc. When I look at most of the main stream media's message - it appears that if our only connection to life is how to buy the most desirable white teeth, hairdo, face lift, tummy tuck  etc..then life just becomes a buying spreed for the
fit and fabulous....my sense is that a main stream message about 'getting' the perfect life style that gives us the chance to live in youthful lane of
never growing old land....is false and fake...so ..we wait for the non-fake life style to show up on the main stream....
it is more about accepting that we/I/you are the ones/one we/you/me have been waiting for....it is here now....like chopping wood and carrying water.....it is here now..we are the yogis on the planet..it is up to us to be...the yoga...the yoking....not joking....yeah...there might be some emotional roller coaster that will go way up and go way down....and sooo what? 
Being in the yogic state ( staying online with Big Mind )...is what I feel it is all about...aim towards that which poses you/me/I in the direction of the 'core of goodness' the lines of energy...that help you/I/we/us whoosh....into the place of peaceful knowing....listening to the prompt...is the big challenge..each moment..no matter where we are..on a mat, in a car, in the shower, in the garden....no matter...where we are we can listen...as we sense the waiting....my awareness is stimulating me to pause..more often...listen more deeply, heal my aches and pains more throughly, be more present with each drink of water....and keep the whoosshing core of goodness close to our/your/my heart..... wow ..something about this sense of waiting just lite my fire..hope it stimulates and supports you/me/us...because that is my intentions....feels like a bit of a rant..  ......and "Waiting for Godot".......the play...is reflected
here.....
I/you/we are not helpless, or hopeless..I/you/we are living yoga daily..as best we can or know how during this moment given our habit energies......Waiting for Godot ( Samuel Beckett) .....a play worth reading or seeing....it is ringing in my ear at the moment.....old, older, dying, dead.. where is the fountain of youth..? do you know...I think it is at the tip of the nose...what do you think? Burying 2 good elders this week....got me all stired up...   
"death is like changing clothes"...Lama Ole Nydahl, Buddhist Teacher Am I waiting for death or rebirth..?? LOve to all, Peace to all, Joy to all no matter how old one may appear... Living Love as much as possible..F |
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Posts: 221 (07/04/09 06:51:23) |
I think there is a huge difference between being young and having a youthful spirit. Just about everyone loves and is drawn to a youthful spirit. One of
the first things Erich writes about in his book is how yoga helps to loosen the internal stiffening that we associate with age and is really due to lack of
use. I love Billy Mays, the tv pitch man. Now that he is dead his friends describe his youthful spirit as the "thing" that was most appealing about
him. If we choose to look at age as the beginning of the end our minds will stiffen and then our bodies and spirit will follow.
Don't trust anyone under 30! |
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Posts: 14242 (07/04/09 08:28:42) Asst. Administrator |
not much to add
as the insights comments and stories above are fully wonderful examples/experiences and state the effectiveness of looking beyond what appears to be so and not believing everything you see or read or hear meditation quieting the mind finding beauty thankfulness kindness generosity love and so many more things allow us to tap the nectar, the sweetness that leaves a lingering lasting impression (a + one) in our minds in our space in all ways it doesn't mean emotions don't rock and roll it doesn't mean the mind ceases to chitter it DOES mean that we know the difference between  solidness and spaciousness
black merges with white... the intimacy and intertwined-ed-ness of all things are not always as they apear not in this life! so instead of getting caught in the knots and tangles make a practice of learning to peek through what may look like dark space glimpses, brilliant light, illuminations, lifting of weights, our darkness our fears dissipate and a different sense fills us the things that keep us stuck shift (SHIfT happens) each breath each moment is an opportunity in now to choose one -- be thankful challenge a belief that limits or shuts you down defy definition age... (timeless) life is eternal spirit doesn't burn out like an old hippie (not that old hippies burn out but i wanted to write that ...  )
life is eternal that which enlivens us can not fade out or die we can suppress it successfully but we can not denature it so sit breathe or walk breathe take in some beauty like breathe it in each and every freeking cell of you taste (see/touch/investigate) and appreciate something simple a lot in little doses really DO it tap that which turns on something you can recognize as different, lighter, less defined...u name it but the difference is definite break freely free from old patterns that dim your light(s) and shine 
love, rona (and as usual...my 'non-commentary' ... comments) xoxoox...
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a
love letter to the world." Mother Teresa
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Posts: 222 (07/04/09 10:13:55) |
Rona...beautiful....
Susan
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Posts: 223 (07/04/09 14:24:16) |
Rona and Susan...you are so beautiful...thanks for retelling, reminding and helping me return to center...
(I think I will put some flowers in my hair tonight)
Fun is really all I care about, the fun of living even when it is painful, sad, confusing...sensing fun as a good tool that can help me lift myself.. A sense of waiting, being in the process of aging and remembering the wonder of the beautiful woman who came into the clothing shop...that is so good to picture. Really do it...yes..R...sit when I sit, chop onions when I chop onions, sing when I sing...swallow when I swallow waiting not wanting frangipani |
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Posts: 10639 (07/04/09 15:19:57) Asst. Administrator |
You guys are amazing.
 Thank you all, so much, for being here.
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Posts: 223 (07/04/09 16:32:09) |
You guys....happy 4th!!
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patti |
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Posts: 15 (07/05/09 10:23:06) |
wow you guys...such awesome comments...I love them all...gave me alot to think about ....feel free to Rant anytime also....but you all seem to totally be in
tune and AWAKE and I am just ...well... not quite two years into this journey and it is so amazing and I am learning soooo much...I had a spiritual background
already so listening to what we called" the still small voice" or Big Mind or whatever ...is comfortable for me...must work on creating more
graditude...spending more time in nature...I live right by the beach but sometimes get "too busy" to go and walk on the beach...well, no more...it
centers me...it is every changing also..just like we are...brings me back to the important things. Thank you to all of you for helping me sort this stuff out.
Oh, and one last little story that is interesting:
My friend here in CA was talking on her cell phone while driving(illegal here) and she was totally caught up in the conversation and an officer pulled her over and told her that he had been following her for a looooong time and she hadn't even noticed...well, he proceeded to check her registration and insurance(which was expired, ugh)and then went back to his car to run her plates.While he was doing that, it occured to her that she should express her graditude to him so when he came back he was working on his little hand held electronic ticket writer thingy and she said, "You know officer, I just want to thank you for stopping me and I realize that the laws are there for a reason and to protect me and I am so thankful that I wasn't in an accident because I was so distracted on my cell phone"(NOT an exact quote but something like that)She told him she was ready to sign the ticket and accept responsibility for her actions....well.........amazingly, he told her that he didn't know what was wrong but his ticket writer thingy had just frozen up and wouldn't work and he said he didn't know what she just did to cause that but she definitely wasn't getting the ticket now....How cool is that???? A little gratitude works wonders, I think. |
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Posts: 16 (07/05/09 10:29:12) |
Oh yes....and SHIFT HAPPENS...so cool...needs to be a bumper sticker...love that....loved the "picture" of the older beautiful woman coming into the
clothing store also...the reminders to be HERE NOW no matter what we are doing yes yes yes...all good...love you guys....so happy and grateful for this
board...God Bless you all....Patti
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Posts: 8571 (07/05/09 13:43:59) |
I love that! about the ticket . . stay with the reality, with the truth of how you really feel at the moment and it is always a reward . .
How cool is that?!! |
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Posts: 231 (07/05/09 18:11:28) |
Patti..Wonderful story!
I love giving gratitude about the ticket...! The whole energy shifts when we/I/you/we go into gratitude. 
One of my favorite teachers used to say: "Fake it till you make it" So, I take it this way, even if I am not quite in gratitude, at least I am willing to fake it till I make it, I know that I intend to be grateful. This seems like a generous gesture towards the universe, which allows the good to flow. For some reason today, I have just been wanting to cuss. And I really
don't want to recreate an old habit..of letting myself get p.....d off,  I intend to allow a refinement of action that is truthful and healing, instead of cursing at something ....which really is me....I will wait for more
patience and grace ( which is a state of refinement in my mind ) 
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 that, Fran.....refinement.
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Posts: 14249 (07/06/09 08:26:28) Asst. Administrator |
fran
i had a teacher too who said that same exact quote, "fake it till you make it" and he also noted that you're faking yourSELF out it's not like your trying to trick or pull some scheme over on someone else it's our very self we are programming for continued leaps of greatness namaste love u all rona
that traffic ticket story is wonderful  
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a
love letter to the world." Mother Teresa
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Posts: 5115 (07/06/09 10:50:21) |
You guys are rockin'.
I just read this today on another network and I think this describes the sense of waiting that Patti was getting at when she first posted: Beauty Arises in the Stillness of Your Presence"In a sense, the state of presence could be compared to waiting. Jesus used the analogy of waiting in some of his parables. This is not the usual bored or restless kind of waiting that is a denial of the present...It is not a waiting in which your attention is focused on some point in the future and the present is perceived as an undesirable obstacle that prevents you from having what you want. There is a qualitatively different kind of waiting, one that requires your total alertness. Something could happen at any moment, and if you are not absolutely awake, absolutely still, you will miss it. This is the kind of waiting Jesus talks about. In that state, all your attention is in the Now. There is none left for daydreaming, thinking, remembering, anticipating. There is no tension in it, no fear, just alert presence. You are present with your whole Being, with every cell of your Body. In that sate, the "you" that has a past and a future, the personality if you like, is hardly there anymore. And yet nothing of value is lost. You are still essentially yourself. In fact, you are more yourself than you ever were before, or rather it is only now that you are truly yourself.... BEAUTY ARISES IN THE STILLNESS OF YOUR PRESENCE What you have just described is something that I occasionally experience for brief moments when I am alone and surrounded by nature. Yes. Zen masters use the word satori to describe a flash of insight, a moment of no-mind and total presence. Although satori is not a lasting transformation, be grateful when it comes, for it gives you a taste of enlightenment. You may, indeed, have experienced it many times without knowing what it is and realizing its importance. Presence is needed to become aware of the beauty, majesty, the sacredness of nature. Have you ever gazed up into the infinity of space on a clear night, awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of it? Have you listened, truly listened, to the sound of a mountain stream in the forest? Or to the song of the blackbird at dusk on a quiet summer evening? To become aware of such things, the mind needs to be still. You have to put down for a moment your personal baggage of problems, of past and future, as well as all your knowledge; otherwise, you will see but not see, hear but not hear. Your total presence is required. Beyond the beauty of the external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. Could it be that this nameless essence and your presence are one and the same? Would it be there without your presence? Go deeply into it. Find out for yourself." -Eckhart Tolle, "The Power of Now"
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