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Re: What psychic power would you like to have?

http://jen7juice.gaia.com — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:59:56 GMT

Clairvoyance. i already believe that is my calling. my intuition is way too strong for it not to be a possibility.

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://trichronos.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:09:59 GMT

I feel very much that my body is doing the work of helping me to transform my personality.

It's difficult, because "the knowledge of good and evil" is mostly the realization that what we do to our bodies lives on in our spirits after we die. Because the world is dominated right now by people that gain power through intimidation, that's pretty hard for many of us. We carry a lot of spiritual garbage around that other people have dumped into us.

The really wonderful thing is to open yourself to someone that looks lovingly into you and helps you clean up the mess. When you don't have such a person in your life, having a body can really hurt.

Even so, if we can avoid situations of physical assault, a body is great in spiritual conflict because it is relatively dense. As long as we love our bodies and take care of them, it can be very hard for spiritual predators to penetrate the core of our personality. What's even worse for them is that they realize that it actually feels pretty good to be us, so they tend to fall into us and be unable to get out. That connects us to them in a transformative process. Their greed for good things drives them to emulate us.

So on the whole, having a body is pretty cool.

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://addresstofollow.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:23:32 GMT

Having had OBE's, I feel more spirit than body, it is a gift while incarnated here, and I try to respect it,and relateto it by appreciating the miracle of nature that it is, but I won't be afraid of leaving it, without body the universe is available to us. I am spirit having a human experience

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://eccentric.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:51:19 GMT

The thing I find most intriguing about living in a body is the amount of time I give to it's 'preservation' and upkeep.

Logically it is simply a mode of transport and communication yet if I gave in to it's demands for attemtion I would spend all my time grooming it and keeping it in peak condition, so that ultimately it would be the fittest best looking body in the cemetary.

I am not my body any more than my car is me when I'm driving it.

Living in a body seems expedient for the present, for gaining experience in the physical sensual world, though it certainly has its limitations, not the least one being 2 dimensional travel if unaided.

I don't see it as my body ownership wise. I have it on loan until it wears out then I will leave it so it can return to the earth from which it came and I will move on to the next experience.

I am spirit, I have a soul and presently I live and express myself in and through this body.

Re: What's the strangest food you've ever eaten?

http://Alison-Wonderland.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:12:33 GMT

Raw horse meat, I suppose. Some find it strange though I don't particularly.

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://Alison-Wonderland.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:09:34 GMT

Sucky but necessary for incarnation!

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Re: What's your favorite form of dance?

http://addresstofollow.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:11:35 GMT

For me it's instinctive and natural dancing, I love to watch children move to music, you can see in their little faces how much they enjoy it, and dancing with a small child in your arms is such fun. Many have an instinctive sense of rhythm, I once danced an impromptu dance with some arab women, just for fun one morning, a toddler played the drums in perfect rhythm, and the most ample woman there was a fantastic dancer, boy could she shake it about. Sometimes I think we are too formal and stuffy when it comes to dance, it should be an expression of sheer joy.

Re: What's your favorite form of dance?

http://earthheartconnection.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:06:41 GMT

I love dancing, I just get into the music and dance with it. Dancing is a beautiful way of expression, it is also a wonderful healing tool. It is a fun way to release tension and stress. There are some days that I dance slowly and flow to the music and other days I let all loose and dance to some good old 70's rock. It just depends on what space I am in at the time although these days there is more slower dancing going on, (for me) rock music is more for listening to now, rather than dancing to. Sometimes I like to dance around my garden.I think ballet is a beautiful form of dance both classical and modern and I enjoy watching both.

Re: What's your favorite form of dance?

http://thebackseatdriver.gaia.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:49:44 GMT

Lady Gaga... what an amazing DANCER !

Re: What's your favorite form of dance?

http://DryadofLight.gaia.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:59:14 GMT

I love most forms of dance.....however Ballet the grace style and strength, combined with classical music will always have a special place in my heart.
This is called "Dance of Grace". The poem can be viewed on my site if you would like to read it. Hope you like it.

Re: What's your favorite form of dance?

http://thebackseatdriver.gaia.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:45:40 GMT

"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire." ---Robert Frost

Re: What's your favorite form of dance?

http://Ymarie.gaia.com — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:33:51 GMT

I love all styles of dance, but tribal bellydance has a special place in my heart. I love it and feel almost hypnotized when watching it.

Re: What's your favorite form of dance?

http://ShadowFlame.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:02:54 GMT

Firedancing... Mmm... Always takes my breath away.

Re: If you were a book, which would you be?

http://ShadowFlame.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:01:18 GMT

Hmm... I would like to be Illusions by Richard Bach. I have already memorized parts of that book and retold it to people, so it wouldn't be too far of a stretch.

Re: What's the largest mass of people you've been within?

http://ShadowFlame.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:58:51 GMT

Well, I marched with thousands down chilly Chicago streets protesting the Iraq war, but there were probably more people when Obama won the election. There were people crying in the streets, embracing strangers, such a beautiful scene.

Re: What psychic power would you like to have?

http://ShadowFlame.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:55:56 GMT

I would like to fly, I could save so much on gas. Not to mention it would be amazingly blissful and ecstatic :-)

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://ShadowFlame.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:54:41 GMT

I like my body, but it is strange sometimes. A blessing and a curse, all at the same time. Sometimes I feel more expansive than any physical form could ever hold, yet other times I feel small and insignificant. I guess the key is really to find balance, the middle way, the third side of the coin.

Re: How do you feel about living in a body?

http://LoriAnnJK.gaia.com — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:08:21 GMT

I find it both amazing and frustrating living in a body. I like my body. I think its a great way to learn about the power of my own thinking and feeling -- I can make myself well or ill. I think my body is the embodiment of my mind, the embodiment of my own thinking and feeling. I feel that I have a body. I understand myself as mind, soul and spirit (invisible) objectified as body (visible).

How do you feel about living in a body?

http://iloveyou.gaia.com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:19:14 GMT

How do you feel about living in a body?
How do you feel about living in YOUR body?
How do you relate to your body?
Do you feel that you ARE your body or that you HAVE a body?
If so, who or what are you?