Friday, December 31, 2010

MIRROR -- MIRROR

Well, I guess it's time to reflect.  
WARNING: My glass is half empty.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall: 

If I listed all the organizations that are in the business of helping those in need, this would become a long, boring blog. So many of us are actively involved in trying to upgrade the human condition that one would think the fog would have lifted by now. Kudos and a big HUZZAH for all those good people whose awareness reaches beyond their tiny personal world.

1. But every family I know is suffering as much as they ever have.
2. And minorities are as marginalized as they've ever been.
3. And the ignorant masses hate as much as they ever have and always will.
4. And the war machine marches on.
5. And the faithful are still blind.
6. And too many children are still dying of hunger and treatable diseases while other decadent folks sip their fine wine and admire their Picasso on the wall.

Corruption City is still international and overpopulated. Too many humans suffer from a permanent virus that is deeply entrenched in their hard drive. The symptoms are hate, greed, selfishness, violence, apathy, ignorance, and a detachment from reality.

There are more people walking the streets with severe character disorders than there are people who have reasonable personal and global goals. There are more people to fear than to love (and I'm not only talking about all the idiotic extremists).

America is either directly involved or implicit in all the ills of the human condition. As much as most of you would like to lay the blame elsewhere, I won't allow it in my class! And what makes it more insidious, is that we, and only we, actually have the power to bring about significant change, to lead by example.

Happy New Year!



Thursday, December 30, 2010

LIVE!


Got a call from Authorhouse.

The Zedland Chronicles/Orphan Running went live as of today!

That means I will be getting my one complimentary ($675.00!) copy within a week, more

or less.


Oh, to hold it in my arms. To caress it. To whisper sweet nothings . . .  

I will cry, fo' sho'.

It sort of feels like giving birth, more or less.

Well, way less. No, I have never given birth, but I have had a kidney stone. ICK! And I

have held my newborn daughter in my arms as the midwife helped clean up my wife, and

when my new baby sneezed, I said, "g' bless ya," even though I don't believe in g'.


There are seven or eight characters roaming through my consciousness now

whose welfare is in my hands, however. And my wife will kill me if I

allow anything serious to happen to any of them, so I have to work around that handicap

and still maintain interest somehow. Damn, a writer's life is one of deprivation and hardship. 

I believe it will be another week or two before The Zedland Chronicles/Orphan Running shows up at www.authorhouse.com and 30-45 days before it shows up on Amazon, Borders, etc. It will be available at authorhouse in all formats for e-readers, too.







Tuesday, December 28, 2010

TRANCE TUESDAY III

Hello . . . please adjust to a comfortable sitting position . . . both feet flat on the floor . . . breath in deeply . . . through your nose . . . and imagine . . . inhaling smiley emoticons     . . . blow out . . . through your mouth . . . slowly . . . fully and completely . . . and imagine  . . . actually visualize . . . exhaling frowning emoticons . . . repeat . . . numerous times  . . . your emotional balance . . . will shift . . . with every breath . . . and soon . . . you will smile . . . and begin to feel relaxed.

Hypnotherapy is a dramatic . . . rapid intervention system . . . that can reshape  . . . your feelings of competence . . . and capability . . . With hypnotherapy . . . you can come to the realization . . . that you are responsible . . . for your own realities . . . and can choose to change . . . or re-create . . . your perceptions and beliefs . . . to create . . . a reality by choice . . . This "Consciousness of self" . . . or awakening of awareness . . . this phenomenon . . . is achieved . . . by communication directly . . . with the unconscious part . . . of your mind . . . the part . . . you might call . . . your "Automatic Pilot."

Keep breathing . . . in through your nose . . . out through your mouth . . .

Self-hypnosis is the process of directing yourself into a deep state of relaxation and suggestibility . . . allowing you to "program" your unconscious mind . . . with suggestions to help you experience . . . fewer stress symptoms . . . or to achieve other goals . . . or improvements in your lifestyle . . . The unconscious part of your mind is open to positive suggestions.

Try to delve deeply into this thought: 

. . . Other people perceive you . . . very differently  . . . from how you perceive yourself      . . . inhale through your nose . . . exhale through your mouth . . . Now imagine . . . for just a moment . . . that you had a brief insight . . . into how others   . . . perceive you . . . Imagine . . . that moment of clarity . . . of objectivity . . . that would allow you . . . without any pain . . . to recognize . . . and change . . . anything you discovered . . . that you were less than happy with  . . . and now . . . empowered by your insight . . . calm and relaxed    . . . aware and comfortable . . . you return to the present.

Until next Tuesday, then, when I will describe a simple relaxation technique for self-hypnosis.
  













Monday, December 27, 2010

DEADLINES

Seriously, I have practically forgiven myself for not posting this past week, but as you can see, guilt won out and so, here I am. In my defense, it was a special week, wasn't it? Nevertheless, letting an entire week pass without posting a blog is unconscionable. Google "Procrastination" and you'll get 7,920,000 results!

It seems like only yesterday that someone suggested I do Trance Tuesdays here at Write Makes Might (Thanks, Jason), and tomorrow is Trance Tuesday the 3rd already! Damn, they just keep on popping up. I hope I survive this pressure. We all have our weaknesses.

I don't even have an author's Facebook Page to maintain yet. What's a guy, who's not tech savvy and who can't find the 'write on command' feature on his hard drive, to do?

And I'm still waiting for someone to donate $400.00 so I can afford to have Authorhouse create an Author's web page with my very own URL, which is, evidently, required for success, and which, I suppose, will require yet more contributions from me. Oh, the anxiety. I swear, I'll never write another book again!