Rowanleaf
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My Interests:
Prayer, Meditation, God, Angels, Charity, Music, Books, Travel, Art, Holistic living, Yoga, Health, Depression, Recovery, Fitness, Cooking, Dreams, Astrology, healthy eating, integration, mind-body medicine, healing modalities, reiki
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
How to Know God, Anatomy of Spirit, Invisible Acts of Power, Several books by Doreen Virtue, Remarkable Recovery.
Who Inspires Me:
The Dalai Lama, writers who've gifted me with insight, the good folks at Hay House, Doreen Virtue and other spiritual writers living their talk in a colourful and fun way. Musicians.
My favorite spiritual activities:
journalling, meditating, creating, learning, music
Who I'm praying for:
me, my family, people I've met here
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Happy
What's your spiritual type?:
Active Spiritual Seeker - I'm spiritual but turned off by organized religion.
About Me
They say that 28 is the age where you start to really take responsibility for your life - when you start to feel like a true adult. I don't know about you, but sometimes I think that's true, and sometimes I think about that statement and hear crickets chirping.
I live in Singapore, my name's Rowan. As I write this, it feels like life is giving me a real butt-kicking, to live with more congruency, ask for more help, and get cracking on what I'm supposed to be doing here - not so much in terms of career, but experiences I want to have and create. What I really want now is to experience and learn about love, and write about it. I'm not talking soulmate fairytale love, just love. As I get older I think less in terms of specific goals and more in terms of qualities of experience. I've relied too much on my head for most of my life, it hasn't gotten me very far. Solutions and prescriptions alone don't dispel the worst kinds of fear; probably only love does that. I'd like this to be confirmed any day now!
I value kindness and directness. Manipulation makes me angrier than most other things. I like laughing, and as I get older it's less over cynical clever things and more about purely silly ones. I'm learning Japanese on my own and am constantly surprised by how fun it is. I love Etsy. I watch Project Runway and need to catch up on the latest episode...
I've had long-term issues with addictive behaviour and anxiety and am quite determined to beat them, whatever else happens to me. As I write this, I'm going through some sort of freaky emotional detox that is proving to be crazy scary at times, leaving me exhausted and shaky. A quote I'm finding very helpful right this minute, by a lady called Elisa Robyn: "The source of all fear is abandonment. Never abandon yourself."
Who I'm hoping to meet: supportive and accepting people, people interested in energy healing, people with insights on strength and dealing with fears in a gentle yet by-the-root way, people looking to give free Japanese lessons (it's worth a shot), anyone who wants to exchange PRAYERS for healing, energy, renewal, strength, loneliness, and peace in the face of life's whatevers.
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Bach flower essences - December 1, 2008 - 03:01 PM
Hi there:) I read your post in social anxiety and was wondering what kind of Bach flower essences you have tried? I know Aspen is supposed to help with unknown fears and apprehension. Have you tried that one? I sometimes use Rescue Remedy and Sleep rescue.