Comments for poetry, dreams, and the body http://rickbelden.com/blog a blog by Rick Belden, author of Iron Man Family Outing Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:03:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on poetry, dreams, and the body by Eivind F S http://rickbelden.com/blog/2008/10/12/poetry-dreams-and-the-body/comment-page-1/#comment-14602 Eivind F S Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:03:27 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/2008/10/12/poetry-dreams-and-the-body/#comment-14602 Re-embodiment. I like that a lot. I think you're right. Growing up in an academic home with suppressed emotions moved me gradually into my head. But I did start out in my body. I can remember. Thanks for the heads up about the nature of the path I'm treading. And Rick - I will be cautious and gentle with myself.. Eivind Re-embodiment. I like that a lot. I think you’re right. Growing up in an academic home with suppressed emotions moved me gradually into my head. But I did start out in my body. I can remember.

Thanks for the heads up about the nature of the path I’m treading. And Rick – I will be cautious and gentle with myself..

Eivind

]]> Comment on poetry, dreams, and the body by Rick http://rickbelden.com/blog/2008/10/12/poetry-dreams-and-the-body/comment-page-1/#comment-14600 Rick Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:17:20 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/2008/10/12/poetry-dreams-and-the-body/#comment-14600 Eivind: Thank you for commenting and sharing some of your recent experience. This embodiment process of which you speak is really, in my opinion, a re-embodiment, a return to an old and forgotten territory you once inhabited as a child, and even more so as an infant. I hope you'll be patient and cautious with the process, with yourself, and with your body, as you would with a child or an infant, and listen for all the feedback you receive as you go. You may find yourself retreading ground you lost or gave up earlier in life (emotional, psychological, and spiritual, as well as physical), and you may encounter some wounds from those times that feel surprisingly fresh. It may take some time for you to learn the best ways to balance the risks and intensity of new experience and new sensation with gentle care for yourself as reclaim your body and all the information it's been holding for you. You're very self-aware and I think that self-awareness will continue to be a tremendous asset to you going forward. Eivind: Thank you for commenting and sharing some of your recent experience. This embodiment process of which you speak is really, in my opinion, a re-embodiment, a return to an old and forgotten territory you once inhabited as a child, and even more so as an infant. I hope you’ll be patient and cautious with the process, with yourself, and with your body, as you would with a child or an infant, and listen for all the feedback you receive as you go.

You may find yourself retreading ground you lost or gave up earlier in life (emotional, psychological, and spiritual, as well as physical), and you may encounter some wounds from those times that feel surprisingly fresh. It may take some time for you to learn the best ways to balance the risks and intensity of new experience and new sensation with gentle care for yourself as reclaim your body and all the information it’s been holding for you.

You’re very self-aware and I think that self-awareness will continue to be a tremendous asset to you going forward.

]]> Comment on poetry, dreams, and the body by Eivind F S http://rickbelden.com/blog/2008/10/12/poetry-dreams-and-the-body/comment-page-1/#comment-14565 Eivind F S Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:37:44 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/2008/10/12/poetry-dreams-and-the-body/#comment-14565 I really resonate with this post, Rick. I'm in the middle of an embodiment process myself, tuning more and more into this vessel of my mind and soul that I've felt somewhat alienated from most of my life. I'm starting to love it more as a result - feel that we're playing on the same team. Paradoxically I have found that being willing to hurt my body right now gets me closer to it - that I can love it more if I dare to risk its pain. As if all the protection and padding that's been containing it for all this time has served it not one bit and that it now needs to feel the reality of the existential toils of life. The other day I covered myself with ash. Another day, I want outside in the cold rain and walked barefoot in moss before I sat down in a cold creek and washed myself, singing joyously from the top of my lungs. I look forward to using nature more in my process of tuning in to my body. I thank you for inspiring me to keep going with this work. Eivind I really resonate with this post, Rick. I’m in the middle of an embodiment process myself, tuning more and more into this vessel of my mind and soul that I’ve felt somewhat alienated from most of my life. I’m starting to love it more as a result – feel that we’re playing on the same team.

Paradoxically I have found that being willing to hurt my body right now gets me closer to it – that I can love it more if I dare to risk its pain. As if all the protection and padding that’s been containing it for all this time has served it not one bit and that it now needs to feel the reality of the existential toils of life. The other day I covered myself with ash. Another day, I want outside in the cold rain and walked barefoot in moss before I sat down in a cold creek and washed myself, singing joyously from the top of my lungs.

I look forward to using nature more in my process of tuning in to my body. I thank you for inspiring me to keep going with this work.

Eivind

]]> Comment on Previewing my new book: Scapegoat’s Cross by Rick http://rickbelden.com/blog/2009/08/25/previewing-my-new-book-scapegoats-cross/comment-page-1/#comment-14288 Rick Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:09:58 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/2009/08/25/previewing-my-new-book-scapegoats-cross/#comment-14288 Tom: Thank you for taking the time to read and comment. I appreciate what you said, and it means a lot to me. Hearing from folks like you who've felt some benefit from my work encourages me to keep at it, which is, as I'm sure you can understand, not always easy to do. Hopefully the stars will align for me soon so I can get the new book out within the next few months and take this material to more people who will find it helpful. Tom: Thank you for taking the time to read and comment. I appreciate what you said, and it means a lot to me. Hearing from folks like you who’ve felt some benefit from my work encourages me to keep at it, which is, as I’m sure you can understand, not always easy to do. Hopefully the stars will align for me soon so I can get the new book out within the next few months and take this material to more people who will find it helpful.

]]> Comment on Previewing my new book: Scapegoat’s Cross by Tom N. http://rickbelden.com/blog/2009/08/25/previewing-my-new-book-scapegoats-cross/comment-page-1/#comment-14251 Tom N. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:02:33 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/2009/08/25/previewing-my-new-book-scapegoats-cross/#comment-14251 Amazing poems. Thank you for letting me know I'm not the only one. Please, keep up the great work. You are making a difference in this world, Rick. A very much NEEDED difference. Amazing poems. Thank you for letting me know I’m not the only one. Please, keep up the great work. You are making a difference in this world, Rick. A very much NEEDED difference.

]]> Comment on trying not to try by Rick http://rickbelden.com/blog/2010/07/13/trying-not-to-try/comment-page-1/#comment-14177 Rick Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:08:40 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/?p=1130#comment-14177 Eivind: Yeah, I've taken a bit of a leap here, but it was more like jumping out of a burning building. (I've written a bit <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2010/07/04/strange-freedom/" title="strange freedom" rel="nofollow">here</a> about the situation at my job and my reasons for leaving.) Fortunately, I do have some reserves, not enough to last indefinitely, but hopefully enough to get me from here to wherever I'm going. Thank you for what you said at the end. I appreciate that, and it helps soothe the fear a bit. Burning building or not, this is a scary leap for sure! Eivind: Yeah, I’ve taken a bit of a leap here, but it was more like jumping out of a burning building. (I’ve written a bit here about the situation at my job and my reasons for leaving.) Fortunately, I do have some reserves, not enough to last indefinitely, but hopefully enough to get me from here to wherever I’m going.

Thank you for what you said at the end. I appreciate that, and it helps soothe the fear a bit. Burning building or not, this is a scary leap for sure!

]]> Comment on trying not to try by Eivind F S http://rickbelden.com/blog/2010/07/13/trying-not-to-try/comment-page-1/#comment-14174 Eivind F S Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:15:25 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/?p=1130#comment-14174 Wow, I didn't realized you had quit your job, Rick. That is some scary shit you're going through if you don't have huge financial reserves and no clear plans for the future. I sometimes wish I was as brave as you - ending my job would open up totally new opportunities for me. But with no reserves - it's hard. I'm interested to hear more about how this goes, Rick. What you're doing is very true to David Deida's teaching by the way. We haven't talked about him I think. He writes powerful literature for men. Good to know you've taken this momentous leap into the unknown. Something will materialize. The world needs you. Eivind Wow, I didn’t realized you had quit your job, Rick. That is some scary shit you’re going through if you don’t have huge financial reserves and no clear plans for the future.

I sometimes wish I was as brave as you – ending my job would open up totally new opportunities for me. But with no reserves – it’s hard.

I’m interested to hear more about how this goes, Rick. What you’re doing is very true to David Deida’s teaching by the way. We haven’t talked about him I think. He writes powerful literature for men.

Good to know you’ve taken this momentous leap into the unknown. Something will materialize. The world needs you.

Eivind

]]> Comment on strange freedom by Rick http://rickbelden.com/blog/2010/07/04/strange-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-14120 Rick Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:47:35 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/?p=1071#comment-14120 Thank you, Michael. I appreciate your support and encouragement, especially coming as it does from "one who knows." You've been there, you are there, and you're moving through it, so your words mean a lot. As it happens, I was just in the process of writing a <a href="http://rickbelden.com/blog/2010/07/13/trying-not-to-try" title="trying not to try" rel="nofollow">new post</a>, an update if you will, on my situation when your comment came in. Little bit of synchronicity there, eh? I'll check out the Coehlo book. I've seen bits and pieces of his stuff here and there, but haven't ever read the whole thing. Thanks again, Rick Thank you, Michael. I appreciate your support and encouragement, especially coming as it does from “one who knows.” You’ve been there, you are there, and you’re moving through it, so your words mean a lot.

As it happens, I was just in the process of writing a new post, an update if you will, on my situation when your comment came in. Little bit of synchronicity there, eh?

I’ll check out the Coehlo book. I’ve seen bits and pieces of his stuff here and there, but haven’t ever read the whole thing.

Thanks again,
Rick

]]> Comment on strange freedom by Michael LeFevre http://rickbelden.com/blog/2010/07/04/strange-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-14117 Michael LeFevre Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:37:53 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/?p=1071#comment-14117 Rick, I can't tell you how excited I am for you. I know that you are experiencing a lot of fear and uncertainty about the future, but I also know that it took a ton of courage to take the step that you did. Following your heart is never easy, but it does lead to good things down the road. Have you read the Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo? If not, go pick it up and read it for some inspiration. If you have, maybe it will have a new message for you at this point in your life and career. I know it does for me every time I re-read it. I wish you the best, and if you ever want to chat about this transition from someone who has been in a similar situation, I am here. Take care, Michael Rick,

I can’t tell you how excited I am for you. I know that you are experiencing a lot of fear and uncertainty about the future, but I also know that it took a ton of courage to take the step that you did. Following your heart is never easy, but it does lead to good things down the road.

Have you read the Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo? If not, go pick it up and read it for some inspiration. If you have, maybe it will have a new message for you at this point in your life and career. I know it does for me every time I re-read it.

I wish you the best, and if you ever want to chat about this transition from someone who has been in a similar situation, I am here.

Take care,

Michael

]]> Comment on Previewing my new book: Scapegoat’s Cross by Rick http://rickbelden.com/blog/2009/08/25/previewing-my-new-book-scapegoats-cross/comment-page-1/#comment-13939 Rick Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:18:26 +0000 http://rickbelden.com/blog/2009/08/25/previewing-my-new-book-scapegoats-cross/#comment-13939 Hey John, thanks for dropping by, checking things out, and taking the time to comment. Good to know you're still out there! Hey John, thanks for dropping by, checking things out, and taking the time to comment. Good to know you’re still out there!

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