Re: [ET2] ET in a bookstore

Noelle,

Thank you for sharing this wonderful gift with us; easy and obvious by
hindsight, just the sort of thing we need, and I suspect that without
your example, others here would not have thought of this...just as I
didn't.

Thank you!
-David Burnet

On Mon, 05 May 2003 00:50:48 -0000, "nmiller468"
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> Hi, Silvia and all -
> I haven't posted on this list before - have been in a long period of
> silence - but I know many here from participating in Susan's
> wonderful Berkeley class. I had a particularly wonderful time with
> EmoTrance this weekend - among many over the last few months, but
> this one blows me clean away and I want to share it.
> I've spent the last 3-1/2 days at a wonderful spiritual conference -
> great speakers, amazing music, deeply loving meditation rooms,
> labyrinth walking; deep processing both painful and joyous.. and one
> great danger: The Bookstore (cue shark music here). Yummy books,
> tapes, music, jewelry, objects... sigh. All my life I've gotten into
> deep trouble in bookstores. Clothes, feh. Books, a goner.
> I walked in the first night and thought, I'm sunk. (Did I mention
> that my finances are beyond perilous as I am recovering from a second
> major car accident? And that among the walls and stacks of books in
> my home are way too many that I haven't read yet? This of course made
> no difference to how much I wanted to buy stuff. None.)
> Then I thought, No, I want to enjoy this room as much as I enjoy
> everything else here, and I remembered the discovery in the workshop
> that you could experience all the wonderfulness of a book without
> having to buy it.
> That first time in, I just wandered, ET'ing the whole room in great
> waves, from all vantage points. When I felt nourished and full, with
> no more "waaah, I want that and that and that," I left and went to
> the prayer room, so grateful that I hadn't turned the wonder of this
> conference into guilt, shame, anxiety over buying things I couldn't
> afford out of a feeling of not-being-OK without them. I was more than
> OK, I was in a kind of high peace.
> Every day I went back to the bookstore and ET'd in a different way -
> drinking in, through and out all the creativity of the wonderful
> jewelry; the energies in the posters/drawings/T-shirts of great
> masters; the energies of the music CD's - and around and around
> through the books. I ET'd them just from their covers, or I stood and
> read whole chapters and took them in. I appreciated them so fully,
> ET'd the energy, and then... put them back. Happily. And left each
> time without buying anything, not in a state of deprivation but
> feeling full and complete and appreciative and free.
> The last day (today,) it was ridiculously easy to quietly,
> consciously choose which books and music are actually useful for what
> I'm doing now, and will not just add to the stacks at home. Turned
> out (duh) it was easily and comfortably VERY few. (And since it was
> the last day, they were all 20% off which made me giggle.)
> I don't know if this is easy for other people, but feeling this
> whole, complete and ridiculously happy in a great bookstore full of
> things I'm NOT buying is an absolute first for me.
> Wow.
> Peace & Blessings,
> Noelle
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