{"id":3204,"date":"2013-10-10T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2013-10-10T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:06:37","slug":"for-those-who-think-they-need-caffeine-to-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=3204","title":{"rendered":"For those who think they need caffeine to wake up …."},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are some who believe that the only way they could possibly wake up in the morning is after their latte macchiato<\/a> or other bold brew of the day.\u00a0 But I guarantee if you spot an earwig on your moist towlet that you reached for on the loo … you will have enough adrenaline in your system to stay awake until well after Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> signs off for the night.\u00a0 What is sustaining of course is when\u00a0 you begin to wonder how many earwigs you may have MISSED in the early morning hour.\u00a0 Or how is it even possible for an earwig to crawl inside of a closed container.\u00a0 The earwig plot lines are endless.\u00a0 And yes, even though I am a vegetarian there was certainly a moment of CRUSH THAT LIVING CREATURE!!\u00a0 And perhaps if I had shoes on in the moment I may have.\u00a0 But no, the sliding door to the outside is only steps away, and this little uninvited guest was escorted off the premises in tact and hopefully found a better place to pass the time.\u00a0 However, I realize now that my laundry basket of clean clothes was also sitting outside my door, so the sequel to the earwig surprise party may be in the works.<\/p>\n

When you hang your laundry on the line you can expect one or two surprises in your shorts.\u00a0 That’s part of the au naturel<\/em> deal you make with the sun for drying your clothes.\u00a0 I was reminded of this when my son came in quiet alarmed the other day as he informed me there was a moth inside of his boxers.\u00a0 He realized this only AFTER he put them on as he stepped out of the shower.<\/p>\n

However we manage to wake up, the blessing is of course that we are in this moment awake.\u00a0 We can see through our eyes, instead of seeing only the “I” that is keeping us closed off from Life.\u00a0 We are a world of wake up calls from android reminders, microwave timers, to telemarketers that seem to call precisely when we sit down to eat our dinner every night.\u00a0 And yet we are prone to waves of such frequent narcolepsy that it is a wonder we ever open our eyes.<\/p>\n

What puts us to sleep? \u00a0 What keeps us sleeping?\u00a0 How do we know when we are sleep walking throughout the days (daze)?\u00a0 Perhaps the draw of the dream is so compelling that we shush the whispers from our soul.\u00a0 For some the pain<\/i> that we face, or outright deny, keeps us frozen in a state of perpetual purgatory.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So we try and shut our eyes, close our Self off from those around us, run and hide under the covers in a fast and furious race to the next moment … because this<\/i> moment is simply too hard to handle.\u00a0 Or so it may seem.<\/p>\n

Because in Truth, when we see our connection<\/i> we realize that we have never been alone and that we are in fact surrounded by Love.\u00a0 And waking up to THAT if even only for the blink of a bug’s eye, or an earwig’s pinch I suppose, is a priceless gift.\u00a0 May we each be so blessed to find a bug in our bonet, if that’s what it takes to bring us out of our dream and into this moment where anything is possible.
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