When YOU are down you have to get UP again:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Leaving<\/strong><\/p>\n The Valley of Dolores<\/strong><\/p>\n Almost immediately, we tripped into it.\u00a0 Madness, on the outskirts of Hell was nearby… we were out strolling\u2026 down memory lane, when we crashed into The Horror The Horror.\u00a0 Sometimes you slip into a place where you are out of grace, out of time, exhausted… almost drowning in the hot volcanic mud of ever burning Hades.\u00a0 You struggle\u2026<\/p>\n 23 EASY STEPS OUT OF HELL<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.)\u00a0 Take a deep breath. Exhale. Admit to yourself that you are far from HOME.\u00a0 You are in peril.\u00a0 Take note.\u00a0 Scream, if you must… shout for \u201cHelp!\u201d\u00a0 (In hell, of course no one cares; everyone is too busy being tortured themselves that they have zero time or compassion for the \u201cproblems,\u201d of others.)\u00a0 Think about it, you are here for a reason.\u00a0 Perhaps you are thinking only of you and your problems.\u00a0 Look around, help someone.\u00a0 That might be the ticket out of hell for YOU!<\/p>\n 2.) Center yourself upon the knowing you have strayed and must return to the paradise of writing routines, long walks, and deep meditations in paint and other musical materials. (Yes, if you started to seek yourself in the flashing reflections of computer monitors and television screens; it is now time to unplug and try resting. Rest helps.)<\/p>\n 3.) Thank goodness that you know where you are and suddenly experience relief.\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 Allow that mud caked around your ankles, the cast, the weights, the chains, the shackles, the whatever-holds-you-back to fall away and quickly MOVE to the safety of honesty and truth.<\/p>\n 4.) Running, skipping, jumping: somehow getting enough exercise is key in feeling mentally and spiritually balanced.\u00a0 YOU have to dance your way back to health and happiness and you can only do that on a tummy full of healthy (organic) or even better, home-grown, fresh food.\u00a0 Accept no substitutes.\u00a0 You are what you eat and if GMOs are a part of your diet or you eat a lot of animal products (they have to eat whatever is put in their feed, much like… us.) don\u2019t be surprised if you feel like a big fat burger roasting on the coals of El Inferno.<\/p>\n 5.) Get a stack of seven life-saving books.\u00a0 The book is your stable friend even in the worst adversity.\u00a0 Seven books add up to a gaggle of buddies to back you up and help you fortify your positions and get on with the JOY that life is meant to be, no matter what the situation, do not stray into the land of illusion where the drama seems to mean more than the spiritual.\u00a0 When choosing books in times of adversity; make sure to pick upbeat topics, arcane interests, and study materials, in the middle of a crisis is a great time to brush up on you Mandarin.<\/p>\n 6.) Bathing works wonders.\u00a0 I\u2019ve encountered few problems that a scented, oil bath wasn\u2019t a way to feeling better.\u00a0 Don\u2019t have a tub?\u00a0 Shower with scrub mittens… and perhaps a eucalyptus scented lotion.\u00a0 Even a hot towel on your hands and feet can help you feel more human, just take time to thank goodness that you have hands, a towel… really be grateful.<\/p>\n 7.) Masturbate.\u00a0 Endorphins are good for you. Relieve some stress… get it on with number ONE.<\/p>\n 8.) Appreciate those around you.\u00a0 You wouldn\u2019t be alive if you hadn\u2019t received your share of kindness along the way.\u00a0 After all, infants are obviously vulnerable… each adult human no matter how damaged or battered is proof of human kindness.\u00a0 Value that truth.<\/p>\n 9.) Notice, that others need your help and focus on lifting weights off neighboring shoulders.\u00a0 Be courteous.\u00a0 Politeness, respect, and consideration go a long way toward creating peaceful conditions anywhere.\u00a0 It helps you and others feel better, instantly.<\/p>\n 10.) Find a way to really help another, not an empty gesture, but a real action, resulting in another person feeling LOVED, cared for by you.\u00a0 YOU will instantly feel better when you show great tenderness for another.\u00a0 Loving another is an immediate way to loving yourself, again.\u00a0 When you feel good about yourself, your actions, it means you have taken responsibility for your quality of life.\u00a0 (In HELL, your family send you \u201cHAPPY BIRTHDAY!\u201d text messages that mean absolutely nothing in the grip of timelessness.)<\/p>\n 11.) Writing is a righteous way to cope.\u00a0 Jot down your feelings, make lists, use whatever tools are at hand to help you sort through the complexities of the situation and the implement a plan based on your notes.\u00a0 Just having done this exercise gives you the strength to move forward and enjoy life.<\/p>\n 12.) Remember: you have purpose.\u00a0 You are beautiful.\u00a0 You are unique.\u00a0 Frau loves you. This alone should help you dance across the roasting coals and spring to the eternal green of abundance and wonderment at the beauty which is everywhere. (Yesterday, I was on a public bus, facing the Pacific, on one of the most dazzling stretches, I\u2019ve ever seen… around me, workers, peddlers, vagrants, various students of nothing-in-particular ignored the view.\u00a0 It was fascinating to watch these fellow humans be oblivious to their setting, so very uncaring and preoccupied.\u00a0 (IN HELL no one ever has time; you are rushed from one treatment, to the next, there is NO REST in HELL!)<\/p>\n 13.) humor is magical.\u00a0 The instant you surrender to a big belly rolling HAH!\u00a0 Hah!\u00a0 is heavenly… Laughing at one\u2019s own mistakes is sacred and cleansing; great good can come from this form of jovial mirth.\u00a0 (In HELL, hyena like derisive laughter echoes down endless, labyrinthian halls… devils thrive in putting others down, whatever you \u201crace,\u201d they know the exact racist comments to make you feel the burning scorn of HADES.\u00a0 Sadists that take pleasure in humiliating others or causing deliberate pain to their victims, are to be put on spits and turned around like hot dogs for eternity when the never ending orgy or malicious intent and distorted responses of dictators and mad doctors… like the Nazi Death Camp atmosphere,\u00a0 the space where all is stagnant and there is no giggling allowed, no room for revelry, a fetid pool of half dead people, all of whom could care less about others, in the cubicles next to yours, like rats in a barrow… feasting on horror.)\u00a0 Honest laughter never revolves around another\u2019s perceived or imagined short comings, it is never malicious.\u00a0 Healthy laughter is never at another\u2019s expense.\u00a0 Humor, that hinges on marveling at life\u2019s madness is good for the battered soul.\u00a0 Try it.<\/p>\n 14.) Don\u2019t try to convert the damned.\u00a0 Sometimes, you just have to cut yourself off from the creatures that you seek to protect.\u00a0 People that bring you down, make you feel terrible about life, are like stormy weather and inhibit darkness, bringing their heinous gravitas everywhere they go are to be dismissed in favor of those that cultivate peace, love, humor, and kindness as daily active virtues.<\/p>\n 15.) Avoid the armies of brain dead, intellectually ossified, people for whom everything good is invisible, that live for consuming cultural products without creating material to feed future generations of mentally hungry humans.\u00a0 Lack of creativity is HELLISH in my book.<\/p>\n 16.) Materialism means that you don\u2019t enjoy good things in life because your focus is on the cost of goods rather than the enjoyment and appreciation of effort and beauty.\u00a0 Being chained to a pearl necklace, which should be given away freely, as a token of LOVE to a caring other… is a way in which prioritizing having over giving, which makes monsters of those that are incapable of giving goodness.\u00a0 Leaving a crummy tip for a zealous server: a highway to a hell of big pots were cheapskates are consumed for all eternity!)<\/p>\n 17.) Leap over steaming murky pools of self pity that we are prone to wallow in when we feel we\u2019ve been wrong by focusing on the fact that on the other side of self pity is a glorious oasis of self respect, waiting.<\/p>\n 18.) Draw a line, separating yourself from the faults others project onto you.\u00a0 Be NOT the blank screen upon which lacerated howling sinners project their morbid fantasies.\u00a0 Allow no one to assign you the role of Virgil in the tour of some festering cesspool of evil.<\/p>\n 19.) Stop trying to please everyone.\u00a0 Make it clear what you will and will not accept.\u00a0 Be willing to die, a billion deaths, rather than be bland, dead, and\/or neutral.\u00a0 Take a stand.\u00a0 Defend the light.\u00a0 Be brilliance personified.\u00a0 SHINE!<\/p>\n 20.) Be willing to MAKE ENEMIES.\u00a0 You don\u2019t want friends that are selfish devils.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 No thanks.<\/p>\n 21.) Release, all the half-assed bullshit friends that never actually help or contribute a dime to your operation.\u00a0 Keep friends that care what condition you are in and help you to live a better life.\u00a0 Live in communion and constant exchange of courtesy and affection.\u00a0 Gift giving and exchanging is KEY to the pearly gates.<\/p>\n 22.) Notice: when a devil is disguised as a harmless little old lady.\u00a0 Recognize that evil comes in all packages and that ONE must be alert to distinguish the evil in one\u2019s own conduct.\u00a0 We all lie.\u00a0 We all take short cuts.\u00a0 NO ONE, least of all, I is perfect.\u00a0 Yet, to inhibit a life where prosperity, peace, and pleasure are routine one must be discerning and willing to surgically amputate cancerous connections with toxic fork-tongued folk of the underworld.<\/p>\n 23.) Realize that you are SUPER LUCKY to be alive and that even IF you are suffering now… you have had the pleasure of breathing, reading, learning, and loving.\u00a0 Nothing, could be better, no paradise more succulent and crowded with monarch butterflies, buzzing bees, and healthy human and animal life.<\/p>\n ENJOY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When YOU are down you have to get UP again: Leaving The Valley of Dolores Almost immediately, we tripped into it.\u00a0 Madness, on the outskirts of Hell was nearby… we were out strolling\u2026 down memory lane, when we crashed into The Horror The Horror.\u00a0 Sometimes you slip into a place where you are out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-commentary","category-health-spiritual-fitness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MP900400016.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}