Some days are just like that! Today was going to be one of those great days filled with work, sun and a networking motivational meeting with like minded people at the end of the day to learn about Theta Healing. Look out for those great days. When I’ve got my mind in the wrong place, it bugs the hell out of me when the day doesn’t go my way and I have to accept that my expectations won’t be met.

Having my own schedule but still have something to show for means staying disciplined and keeping to some sort of schedule. That’s why it’s so much easier one many ways to work at an office. One knows when to start the day, most of the tasks that need to be addressed that day and when it’s time to go home for the day. (At least, that’s the theory, right?) But being self employed, there is no one that will contront me if I’m not on time in the morning. There is no one there to hold me accountable for the tasks that need to be done by a certain timeline. There is no one there to help keep the priorities in the right order for the business and clientele to flourish. There is also the social aspect of working with a team.

As I’ve got part of the day planned out so that I can attend the Theta Healing event and work without spending hours in rush hour traffic, I pack up and get ready to go. The sun in shining and the day is still young. Before I take off, I put a CD of Emmet Fox’s “Sermon on the Mount” in the player to listen to while driving. I’ve had periods in my life where the spiritual thirst is ravenous and I feel good listening to inspirational speakers, reading books etc. I’ve got my directions written out so I know exactly where I’m going to set up office until it’s time for the event. There’s road work at this one section of the highway, which happen to be the section where I was going to exit off the highway onto another highway. This is where it all started going wrong. First, there is a bus that is completely blocking me from reading any sign and I can’t go anywhere due to the road work having narrowed traffic down to one lane. I ended up on a tollfree access road which one cannot get off until the destination. Driving past my exit all the way until I can turn around is still all good because I’ve got plenty of time left of the afternoon to work. Well, turning around going back in the direction I came from to backtrack to my exit wasn’t all that easy and before I know it, I’m lost!

What did we do before the era of the phones with maps on them? I’ve got a map that can track my location and give me directions. After several stops to more easily navigate and make sure I was going in the right direction, I finally made it to my destination and chosen office for the afternoon, Barnes and Noble Bookstore. After some frustration and deep breathing, I realized that I still had over four hours where I could get plenty of work done and the sun was still high on the sky. While driving and being lost, I got a chance to further reflect on my morning reading out of “The Golden Present” by Swami Satchidananda. In short, it read about allowing the Higher Power, the Greater Good, to take charge. When we accept completely that whatever happens is the Divine Will, even getting lost and driving for an additional hour, that is also the Divine Will. It might seem totally lame but it does take the pressure off feeling like a pathetic failure and instead put a smile on one’s face. It did on me and without loosing steam, I’m sitting writing this, enjoying the fact that every now and then, I can “go with the flow” and not get worked up.

Bottom line is that when I keep an open mind instead of a bad attitude, the day ends up on a perfect note somehow without me being in control of every move. Live one day, without expectations, anxiety over losing control and with the notion that something amazing will happen to you that day.

The Bold Search For More Than a Doctor

The continuous adventure finding a doctor and the quest for an individual treatment is sometimes an overwhelming task. I’m currently sitting at my temporary but oh so cheap in rent office, Borders, with five blood red and perfectly symmetrical circles on my back from my latest Korean acupuncture treatment.

Usually there is a pill for everything under the sun and we are many times brought up in the spirit of taking anything that will numb the pain, actually the signals our bodies send us that something is wrong. We all know what the aisles look like at any drug store or pharmacy. One can find the pain relievers everybody has heard of, such as Advil, Aleve, Tylenol, Motrin, Midol, Buyer, and so on many times barely knowing the difference between the active ingredient as long as it takes away our pain.

Personally, I’m uncomfortable taking pain medication unless absolutely necessary. Well, a couple of days ago it seemed absolutely necessary because I was battling another one of those intense headaches that have various symptoms but no matter how extra strong or fast releasing the pain medication, they don’t work. Tired of being crippled by these headaches and trying to diagnose myself, I decided to seek out a Korean acupuncturist I recently heard of from a couple of friends.  When I walk in his office I’m first struck by the solid heat that meets and greets me. There is a wood stove with a fan that dispurses the heat into the rest of the office and it brings a sense of genuineness and comfort.

There is no wait and I get called in to one of the rooms right away after I’ve filled out minimal paper work on my medical history. After two sentences out of my mouth describing my symptoms, Doc asks me to lie down on my back and immediately begins his treatment based on what I’m telling him as he proceeds to push on my abdominal area. After he is done sticking needles in my face, abdominal area and my head, he asks me to turn over so he can put suction cups on my back and continue to stick needles in my head addressing the tightness that is contributing to my headaches.

When I finally left his office, I sit for a few minutes in the car getting over a slight feeling of dizziness and almost feeling a little disoriented after he pinched my eyeballs. I experienced the most unusual feeling in regards to my heaad. It still hurt a little bit but the entire nature of my headache had changed and my head actually felt as if it was breathing. There was a lightness all across my head that made it feel like it was floating around like the clouds and how we perceive that they are just simply floating around on the sky.

Having to admit that this was my first encounter with true acupuncture, not considering the Trigger Point Dry Needling, it was most exciting and positive. It is because of practitioners like this doc that I keep looking and every so often I find what I’m looking for which makes all those other disappointing doc visits worthwhile!