Wanderful experience

For these days, I tried to write something, not just because of Christmas, New Year, also for myself.

Last night before bed time, while drinking wine, I started to recall the experience to stand still with eyes closed for more than 20 minutes. trying to figure out why when standing, I feel some kind of energy flowing through my fingers, though at first I feel warm then numb, then nothing. That feeling is so wonderful. Actually, I was not surprised that I can do it. As a child, I can stare at sky for hours. Maybe in most people's eyes, I was quite a strange child, with such silly action, without talking or asking for candy, just sitting there, wandering and wandering, in a sunny afternoon at balcony.

I am crazy about blue such as blue sky and sea, also about the constantly shaping clouds, only with cloud, the sky can present its most beautiful, serene, peaceful, as the glamour of sapphire, attracting me to deeply breath with it and feel it.

The other day, when hiking the san gorgonio snow mountain, with a lot of talking about Yoga, Taiji and Zhanzhuang, it makes me feel so happy. Because I can seldom have those conversations with others. Most people will feel strange about I am talking about how to breathe, how to feel self, how to feel dedicated to something.

I know in my personality, there exists some kind of hasty and emotionality. Then I can use Yoga to balance myself not physically, but also mentally. I believe in every body, there exists Dr.jekyll and Mr. Hyde - man is not truly one, but truly two. First we need to acknowledge it and balance it and sometimes conquer it. For the same reason, sometimes, I will do calligraphy at home when my mother does her painting.

For Christmas, it is time to reunion, and visit family members, for all these days, I keep dreaming about going back home, dinner. So this morning I made pancakes - as I learned here - pancakes make you feel at home. Now sitting here, wandering in front of big window, feeling the sunshine outside, listening to the Lene Marlin, counting the end of my first vacation here, this is my life -simple and I will love it, every day, every hour, every minutes, every seconds with smiling even in painful.

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Looking from one emotional state to another is difficult. It's not always possible.
But to make informed decisions we need to somehow experience and understand the emotional state we will be in at the other side of the experience. learning how to bridge this gaps is essential to making some of the important decisions of our lives.

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The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

cloudy day

This sound is really good for this cloudy and chilly day.
Staying at home, keeping listening to this sound again and again, reading psychology books, for so long time, I have not done things like this.

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From movie about the passion toward life, love and ideal.

Sometimes love is hiding between the seconds of your life.

Time flies, but the good news is that you're the pilot.

Once upon a time, I wanted to know what love was. Love is there, If you want it to be. You just have to see, that it's wrapped in beauty, and hidden away between the seconds of your life. If you don't stop for a minute, You might miss it.

Knowing what you want is half the battle, most people go through their whole lives not knowing what they want. It's easy to find if you know what you're looking for.

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Helping dd to find a song, unexpectedly found a movie. There is an answer of the interview to the director really touches me - 面对荒谬的人生，我能够不断地从电影创作中获得力量、获得感动，这是我深感奇妙并真心感谢的地方。 ( Translation would be - Facing the ridiculous life, I can keep gaining strength， inspire， touching from the creation of movie, which is reason I felt fantastic and entirely thankful toward it)

As a movie fan, movie might be of a kind of religious, the source of power of love, movement, strength, that's the reason I love movie.

ballet - The Nutcracker

Comparing with the theater in my hometown, last time I watched , this Riverside Municipal Auditorium seemed more traditional, without great audio and lights system, comfortable chairs and no 32 fouettés en tournant, but with the same passional spectators.

Maybe most people went to watch ballet, not because of they can totally understand those special terms and how difficulty they can perform it, just because of the pursuit of beauty, elegance and fancy stage .

“The Nutcracker” is a novel written by E.T.A. Hoffmann, original named of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. And then adapted into ballet and music by the famous romantic era composer

Tchaikovsky) , which is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes and also is one of the most popular ballet, especially during Christmas time.

In Act 2, the featured solo instrument in the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”, really special. After coming back and further studying, I finally know it is celesta. It seemed I did not notice it before while listening to this symphony. It might lie in that only when you feeling things in different way, you might find new things, just as the daily venture - “Nothing is what it seems” which makes me more desired to watch the musical “The Phantom of the Opera”, by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Overall, just as the most famous part, the Spanish dancers (sometimes Chocolate), the Chinese dancers (sometimes Tea), the Arabian dancers (sometimes Coffee), the Russian dancers (sometimes Candy Canes--their dance is called the Trepak), Mother Ginger and her Polichinelles (sometimes Bonbons, Taffy Clowns, or Court Buffoons in Baryshnikov's production), the Reed Flutes (sometimes Marzipan shepherds or Mirlitons), the Sugar Plum Fairy, and the Waltz of the Flowers are the greatest part. Especially the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Waltz of the flowers. And the kids in the Mother Gingers and her polichinelles gave me great impression.

Living in an apartment, really can't feel anything about Christmas. Hope this ballet would bring me into my first Christmas here.

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Nothing is what it seems

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The history of a science is the science itself.

Thoughtful people cannot but try to understand the variety of natural phenomena, to solve the mystery of how human beings cam eot dwell on this earth, to discern waht purpose life should serve, and to discover human destiny.

In all early civilizations but one, the answers to these questions were given by religious leaders, answeres that were generally accpeted. The ancient Greek civilization is the expetion. What the Greeks discovered - the greatest discovery made by man - is the power of reason.

Juno - OST

I have recommended the movie "Juno" before, part of the reason for the music. Finally, I found the OST on emule.

Can't wait to share it, especially the sound "Anyone else but you(original one in the movie)", "the swing", "all I want is you", "Tree hugger", "me and you" and so on.

While listening them, I felt I want to watch the movie again. Cute sound, nice movie, perfect match.

Il Divo

Il Divo is a band with four different nationality singers - American, French,Spanish and Swedish. They seem to successfully and seamlessly to combine pop music, good old days music and new music together.

This album contains a lot of familiar songs, such as "Nella Fantasia","Unbreak My Heart". And because of their nationality, they sing not only in English, also in Spanish and Italian.

After raining, the sky seems so blue. On this sunshine morning, listening such album would be a perfect choice. :)

predictably irrational

I have heard about this book long time ago. Finally, I borrowed it from library. This would be a funny vacation. :)

The Celestine Prophecy

Destiny, this would be the perfect word to describe this movie. Some time, I will ask myself whether I believe destiny. When people feeling that they can charge everything, they won't believe destiny, because they think they can do anything according to certain effort or other methods. In another world, when in inferior, people would like to resort to some kind of super power to other kind of strength. Some people even consider destiny is self-console medicine. Though I am not sure whether I believe destiny, I do for synchronicity and consequence, which is the realization that coincidences may have deep meaning. And I do think we need to keep a different state of mind to see this world in a different way, not as divine as in this story, but with connection with the nature and the beauty of this world.:)

Although only the ninth insight appeared in the movie in the form of words, all the others was presented according to the experiences of the main character. Quite strange feeling, while watching that movie, I tried to remember another movie "Donnie Darko", though they are quite different types of movie - about tangent universe.

Nine Insights

* The First Insight... A Critical Mass

A new spiritual awakening is occurring in human culture; an awakening brought about by a critical mass of individuals who experience their lives as a spiritual unfolding, a journey in which we are led forward by mysterious coincidences.

* The Second Insight... The Longer Now

This awakening represents the creation of a new, more complete world view, which replaces a five-hundred-year-old preoccupation with secular survival and comfort. While this technological preoccupation was an important step, our awakening to life's coincidences is opening us up to the real purpose of human life on this planet, and the real nature of our Universe.

* The Third Insight... A Matter of Energy

We now experience that we live not in a material Universe, but in a Universe of dynamic energy. Everything extant is a field of sacred energy that we can sense and intuit. Moreover, we humans can project our energy by focusing our attention in the desired direction, in that where attention goes, energy flows, influencing other energy systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in our lives. It is possible to see this energy enveloping all living things.

* The Fourth Insight... The Struggle For Power

To gain energy, we tend to manipulate or force others to give us attention and thus energy. When we successfully dominate others in this way, we feel more powerful, but they are left weakened and often fight back. Competition for scarce, human energy is the cause of all conflict between people.

* The Fifth Insight... The Message of the Mystics

Insecurity and violence ends when we experience an inner connection with divine energy within, a connection described by mystics of all traditions. A sense of lightness or buoyancy along with the constant sensation of love are measures of this connection. If these measures are present, the connection is real; if not, it is only pretended.

* The Sixth Insight... Clearing the Past

The more we stay connected, the more we are acutely aware of those times when we lose connection, usually when we are under stress. In these times, we can see our own particular way of stealing energy from others. Once our manipulations are brought to personal awareness, our connection becomes more constant and we can discover our own evolutionary path in life, and our spiritual mission, which is the personal way we can contribute to the World.

Here the four main "control dramas"—the Interrogator, the Intimidator, the Aloof and the Poor Me—are discussed. Each person unconsciously prefers one of these four to suck energy out of others (as described in the Fourth Insight). A way of getting these under control is disclosed.

* The Seventh Insight... Engaging the Flow

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question; then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us towards the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

* The Eighth Insight... The Interpersonal Ethic

We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection when we have become part of romantic relationships. Uplifting others is especially effective in groups wherein each member can feel energy of all the others. With children it is extremely important for their early security and growth. By seeing the beauty in every face, we lift others into their wisest self, and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

* The Ninth Insight... The Emerging Culture

As we all evolve toward the best completion of our spiritual missions, the technological means of survival will be fully automated as humans focus instead on synchronistic growth. Such growth will move humans into higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of existence with the after-life dimension, ending the cycle of birth and death.