It's All Understood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEypk-Hxsfo


Everyone laughed at her joke
As if they'd never even heard it before
And maybe they were truly amused
But every word that she spoke was a bore
And maybe it's because they had seen
The previews on the TV screen
Well this part is good and that's well understood
So you should laugh if you know what I mean

But it's all relative
Even if you don't understand
Well it's all understood
Especially when you don't understand
Then it's all just because
Even if we don't understand
Then lets all just believe

Everyone knows what went down
Because the news was spread all over town
And fact is only what you believe
And fact and fiction work as a team
It's almost always fiction in the end
That content begins to bend
When context is never the same

And it's all relative
Even if we don't understand
And it's all understood
Especially when we don't understand
Then it's all just because
Even if we don't understand
Then lets all just believe

I was reading a book
Or maybe it was a magazine
Suggestions on where to place faith
Suggestions on what to believe
But I read somewhere
That you've got to beware
You can't believe anything you read
But the good Book is good
And it's all understood
So don't even question
If you know what I mean

But it's all relative
Even if you don't understand
Well it's all understood
Especially when you don't understand
And it's all just because
Even if we don't understand
Then lets all just believe

But there you go once again
You missed the point and then you point
Your fingers at me
And say that I said not to believe
I believe
I guess
I guess it's all relative

Jack Johnson, It's All Understood, Brushfire Fairytales.

So I was listening to music today (big surprise I know) and got on a Jack Johnson kick. I came across this song and it grabbed me. It made me think, do people really understand?
I would hope that we are evolving in a way that we can start to see the madness in our methods.
But if you spend any amount of time watching television, you quickly start to question whether it matters enough to the majority. I hope it is like all those Crime shows, nothing like real life.

He seems to be saying if you're beautiful, you're popular. No matter how boring and unoriginal you are, and that the media corrupts or sensationalizes the truth for ratings or because "sex sales". His or others' battle within themselves about God and faith...and, if you question the norm, you are considered a non-believer, are both poignant and relative. I certainly am not part of the "norm" in my community when it comes to religious beliefs.
I feel we should all go within to find our truths in life, not to simply believe what we are told. What one person believes should not make any difference to us. Isn't the more important matter that we believe in something that comes from our hearts? Not simply from being told to believe it and complying without question?

I was at the bookstore the other day (another big surprise) and picked up a hilarious book about how to play the harmonica. Yes, you read right! It was one of those "just jumped into my hands" kind of books. It is Funny, creatively written and completely worth at least a quick read.
Anyway...he says something to the effect of if we stop having the drive to learn, we should check our pulse. I absolutely agree. The same can be said about finding our core beliefs. That is something continual, you may find a belief but the universe and all that is are immense.
Are we not here to learn as many lessons as we can? It is disheartening to think some are ignorant to the fact that they are behaving as sheep. What will it take for some to wake up and realize the wolf is not really in control? I don't know. I can only speak for myself.

"He �Read somewhere that you cannot believe everything you read.� If this statement was valid, then you could not trust it to be valid, because you read it in a book as well. If the statement is invalid, then you CAN believe everything you read, making the statement valid, and contradicting itself." ~Vermillion Raine.
She makes a Valid statement here (haha).

Basically I feel he is saying that far too many of us go along with it just because, not because we have put any effort into finding our own truths. Perhaps we are not meant to understand everything, and that concept in itself can be powerful. Call it floating faith if you will.

I don't have all the answers, but as I told someone today in relation to another Jack Johnson song...I will never stop seeking them. I am fascinated by they fact that there is So much we don't know. It is exciting to me to continually search, explore, and expand my beliefs. And not because someone told me to, or to go with the flow. :)

Whole-Self Well-Being
How the Body Clears Energy

Whole-self well-being is, in part, the result of a harmonious flow of energy between our physical and mental selves. When this flow is thrown out of balance for any reason, the body and mind react to one another rather than act cooperatively. Ongoing stress, sadness, anxiety, excitement, and fear can overwhelm the cerebral self, causing traumatic energy to be channeled into the body. The body then responds by taking steps to organically dispel the energy that has burdened it and expressing it by means of physical symptoms such as illness, fatigue, or disease. In some cases, these symptoms can simply be allowed to run their natural course and recovery will come about naturally. In most instances, however, health and wellness can only be restored by a dual course of treatment that acknowledges both the physical manifestations of energy clearing and the underlying emotional causes.

Many of the ailments we experience over the course of our lives can be indicative of the body’s attempts to process intellectual and emotional energy. Swollen glands, for example, can signal that you are going through a period of emotional cleansing. Even something as simple as a pimple can indicate that your body is ridding itself of toxins and old energy. In Chinese medicine, intense emotions are held in the body’s organs as a matter of course. Grief lurks in the lungs, anger inhabits the liver, fretfulness lingers in the heart, worry is held in the stomach, and the kidneys harbor fright. Particular illnesses and symptoms represent the body’s attempts to clear emotional energy. Coughs or bronchitis can signify that the physical self is clearing away grief while a loss of appetite may signal that worry is being actively addressed.

When you feel ill or imbalanced, treating your whole self rather than treating the physical self alone can empower you to determine the root cause of sickness. Since you understand that your physical symptoms may be an expression of emotional discomfort, you can establish a balanced treatment regimen to ensure that you quickly recover your good health. ~The Daily OM

Balance
"Like pieces of a puzzle, the many different aspects of our being come together to form the person that we are. We work and play, rest and expend energy, commune with our body and soul, exalt in joy, and feel sorrow. Balance is the state that you achieve when all of the aspects of our life and self are in harmony. Our life force flows in a state of equilibrium because nothing feels out of sync. While balance is necessary to have a satisfying, energetic, and joyful life, only we can determine what balance means to us."

Achieving this balance is not always easy. We have to decide what is truly important in life. So may choices we make tend to cause us to be out of balance, yet we continue to choose that...why is that? Is it that we fear change so much that we would rather be out of balance than to rid our lives of whatever habbit, relationship, health issues may be causing us to tilt?

I find that I will allow myself to "wander" and it seems the further I wander the harder it is to pull myself back into the more balanced place that works for me. Just like a pendulm that is swinging out of control, just being the slightest bit off kilter creates chaos.
I feel like I am holding on so tight...about to fall apart at any moment. Then somehow I am able to gain my composure again. This happened to me again receintly. I have been in another rut, overwhelmed and feeling a bit low about myself (health).

An acquaintenance of mine has been asking to become closer, she moved to Utah a while ago and has not made a huge ammount of friends here. (She is like me and Not a Mormon, go figure that she would encounter some difficulties finding friends) For reasons that maybe if I get brave enuf I will explain later...I have put her off. And put her off...NO I am not proud of this. It just Is.
Well one day I get a message from her asking if my son can go snowboarding with them. She was really cold and I felt a sting in her tone. (Deserved I Know) So I messaged her back and explained my state of mind...this time not making my typical excuse, but asking her to go to lunch and to see that new movie "He's Just Not That Into You". She Gladly accepted! I told her I'd even pluck my brows for her! WoOt...and if you had seem how bad I let them get! OMG you would understand what a Big job it was. So freshly plucked and smelling well...Juicy :D Off I went to enjoy some Incredible sushi and a great movie. Best of all while we were out her hubby got to play his beloved puter game all by himself as her son kept my boys busy so that My hubby could get the Much need drains fixed so the laundry room would not keep flooding! So not only did I get out and start to form a bond with someone who Truly wants me in her life, no matter what. I came home to a clean house and working drains....
So why was it so hard for me to just go do this?
Thats not the end of this story (sigh)
My mother had just come by to take my boys to her house for the night, so instead of opening my trusty laptop and double clicking on that ever familuar hand symbol on my desktop. I chose to ask the hubby if he wanted to go out. We often spend hours and hours at the nearby Barnes and Noble either ppl watching or reading while sipping on Starbucks coffee (yes I know). But due to my lack of wanting to live in the real world it had been a month since we had last gone. So we had a nice dinner and scurried off to have a coffee nightcap. LOL
This Barnes and Noble has some nice big comfy chairs near the cafe and we love to get lucky and score at least one, preferably both ;) So as we're sitting in a terribly Uncomfy hard chair at a table in the cafe...I notice one chair open up..I was shooing Pat (hubby) to grab it as I gathered out belongings. As he walked over, the man that was sitting there came back...so we told him to plz plz take the chair.Like any good person would do right ? (Trust me not all ppl Do that) He refused..said he would take another seat, and as he started to go the woman sitting in the other chair also told him to stay...he insisted that I sit. With that he was gone. I sat, noticing the book the woman was reading, and this Gorgeous crystal around her neck. Instantly I felt something. Not sure what, just something. not more than 15 minutes passed and she got up to leave. Telling Pat to plz sit - I took that opportunity to tell her I could not help but notice the book she was reading and had she read others by the same author. She had not. Well that was the begining of the most wonderful conversation. Pat had her sit back down and we talked and talked for hours..which literally seemed only minutes. She is from Bolivia, and has the most intoxicating energy about her. She felt the same about me. It was amazing. She helped me see again how out of balance I'd let myself become. I remebered again my path and where I need to be. It was just one of those times in life that you end up being Exactly where you should be when you need to be. We shared energy, not taking from one another but giving and recieving equally. I woke up that day from the daze I have been in. I had forgotten again how good it feels to be in the light.

I am thankful I pushed myself - it was time.

♥N♥