“Are you madied?” I was often asked this during my visit to India. Getting married and being married seems to hold a lot of importance to women in India. “I want my son to madie pretty, light skin gurl who’s from rich prominent family,” one Indian woman said. She went on to talk about how sacred the union of marriage is to God. Only a petty God would care about the skin color, weight, wealth and prominence of his subjects who say, “I do.” Many marriages are based on frivolous prerequisites and then we have the audacity to say, “What God has yoked together let no man pull apart.” It doesn’t take much energy to pull something apart when there …
NEW JERSEY HOUSEWIVES
FIGHTING FOR FAMILY The New Jersey Housewives reality show took their dysfunction to a whole new level when a brawl broke out after Teresa Giudice’s brother called her “garbage” at a christening celebration. Okay, I expect adults on these types of reality shows to behave like jerks however to have a thug type street fight in the presence of young children was way off the chart. While watching the chaos I constantly asked myself, “What is the NEED for people to have relationships with toxic family members who disrespect them?” The word NEED is key here. We are programmed to believe that family is the most important thing there is to life because blood is thicker than water. The emotionally …
THE PHONE CALL
For two nights my boyfriend didn’t call me before I went to bed to say “good night” to me. We talked and texted each other a few times earlier during the day however that wasn’t enough to appease me. I was furious with him. Granted, I never discussed with him the importance of us talking just before I went to bed. It was rare we didn’t speak to each other just before going to bed so I assumed he knew how I felt. I reflected on my thoughts and fears and I was curious as to why this angered me. During my meditation, I was triggered with some subconscious fears I stored from many years ago when I was engaged …
DIRTY “H” WORDS
It took many years for me to understand words are things and thoughts are things. Caroline Myss is a spiritual teacher who teaches you to understand the power and dynamics of energy. She has an audio program called “Energy Anatomy” that helped me to understand everything is energy before its matter. In our un-evolved world we focus on the physical reality because we trust what we can see, feel or touch. We are either afraid or dismiss the invisible realm. Daily I hear people over use and misuse the words ‘hate’ and ‘hard.’ Hate is a strong word to be used so frivolously on things like, “I hate this kind of cup cake. I hate it when I don’t get …