Torment and Inspiration

From Chuck Lorre:

I recently spoke with a man who is tormented. He thinks he is tormented because he thinks he has a tormentor. He cannot think of a scenario wherein he leaves his tormentor and thus ends his torment. He thinks his only path to serenity is to destroy his tormentor. He thinks the appropriate weapon to accomplish this task is a lawyer. This got me to thinking that perhaps thinking was the real source of his torment. But how can that be? Don't we value thinking? Don't we worship great thinkers? How can this God-given gift that separates us from the animals be deemed a curse? Isn't the alternative to thinking, stupidity? Or is there another alternative? Ask yourself this question, "When I have a good idea, do I think my way to it, or does it just hit me?" Which brings me to the theme of this vanity card (finally). I'd like to suggest that we all have inspiration at our disposal at all times. How does inspiration work? How the hell would I know? I just know it's there. Nothing else but inspiration explains a great work of art, and nothing else but thinking could be responsible for making all those "Lethal Weapon" movies. I mentioned all this to the tormented man. I told him that perhaps he could find a solution to his troubles by quitting thinking and being open to inspiration. He said he thought I was a moron and threw his shoe at me. It just hit me.

Meaning of Success

from Chuck Lorre

"It's strange to think of one's life as analogous to climbing a mountain. It's even stranger to discover, after years of striving to reach the summit, that it's the wrong mountain. This is what happened to Dave. Dave spent twenty years climbing the wrong mountain. And yet he had to consider it time well-spent. After all, no one could have told him he was relentlessly scaling the wrong pile of dirt (not that they didn't try). Dave had to find out for himself. Which is why, in the perverse way life happily screws with us, it turned out to be exactly the right mountain. In order to see things clearly, to understand the actuality of his existence, Dave had to crawl up a treacherous incline that only led to happiness in his poorly-formed, childish dreams. There was never an alternative mountain for ol' Dave, because he was incapable of envisioning one. So he climbed. Until one day, he looked around and saw that he'd reached the top. The pinnacle. The apex. The place where eagles crap. And that's when he noticed the mountain he was always meant to climb far off in the distance. And he noticed something else... everyone climbing that mountain was truly happy. So Dave did the only thing a sane man could do in his situation, he sent word to those people and told them they were on the wrong mountain."

Happy Halloween - Gift

Ohhhhhhhhh....I love Halloween! *smiles shyly* (it's my favorite holiday)

So to celebrate, I have two freebies for you.

The first freebie gift is purely for fun and play, if you want a silly distraction for a few minutes, click here.

The other is purely for fun and growth. For a *very* limited time, I'm offering free single-hour coaching sessions in skill development, with the understanding that I'll be recording the call and using the material for the website. You can pick a topic, set up a time, and gain FREE TIA skills coaching in exchange for helping me produce recordings that will contribute content to the site. You even get a copy of the final recording, FREE, as a thank you for your help and for sharing your voice with the world.

Here are some sample topics you might choose from for your free session:
- Experiencing God/Divine/Expanded Peak States in 20min or less
- Reducing Stress in 3 Breaths
- Overcoming Childhood Wounds
- Simple Shadow Work
- Getting It Done - The 10MinManifestor
- Powerful Requests
- Powerful Expression
- ...customized session - based on sthing you want more mastery or growth around

Simply give me a call and tell me which session you'd like and when we can schedule our call!

Happy to be sharing the play,
Warmly,
Gail
toll-free 877.535.5438

Unconventional

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
-- Margaret Mead

Funny Quotes on Health

It's been an interesting 36 hours for me, lots of healing work. Right when I think I've plucked all the apples that there are to pluck in my twisted little psyche, I suddenly learn I've only pulled the low-hanging fruit and find another ripe one.


Woo hoo AFGO!

(AFGO - Another F#$%ing Growth Opportunity)


So while the newly poured cement of my healing work is in curing mode (heh), here are a few fun quotes about health.

Enjoy!
Gail

• Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid Bergman

• Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone. -- Grace Jones

• According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry lonely women, you'll be dead soon. -- Tina Fey

Spiritual Teachers?

Often someone, somewhere, will ask me, "Who are your favorite spiritual teachers?" I then show my depth of intelligence, saavy and experience by staring blindly at the question-asker, mouth agape.

Finally I have an answer! Have you met Chuck Lorre?

Here's my favorite CL teaching of the day.

Enjoy!
Gail

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, # 57

One of the great blessings of getting older is realizing, without shame and remorse, what an idiot you've been at earlier stages of your life. I can think of nothing that breeds humility better than this on-going epiphany. The knowledge that with a few exceptions, I was the human version of the "don't pass" bet on a craps table, is oddly comforting. Let's take a look. In 1977 I tried to talk a friend out of investing all his money in stores that only sold running shoes. A few years later, I told anyone who would listen that the female singer of "Lucky Star" was a one-hit wonder, while the singer of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" was here to stay. I saw no future in bottled water or fancy coffee shops. Cellular phones? What for? I already have a phone. And let's not forget that in 1988 I read William Gibson's "Neuromancer," logged onto the Internet, and STILL didn't see it coming. Shall I go on? Shall I share with you some of the moronic things I've done, thought and said in my personal life? Of course I won't. I'm not stupid. I'm just humble.

Humor

I'm pretty happy with how the Universe put me together: 6' Amazon frame, body of a venetian statue, relatively clever and contemplative. One thing I miss, though, is a stronger line around my ability to deliver humor. I've tried memorizing jokes, reading books on humor, attending improv classes - still I'm too significant for my own tastes.

Any recommendations on how I can improve my humor line?

Meanwhile, here are a few quotes I pulled to give me the balance I crave. Enjoy!

Curious,
Gail

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected!
It takes 46 muscles to frown but only 4 to flip 'em the bird.
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson
Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.

GIM Followup

If you were reading my GIM post, I hope you'll enjoy these actual excerpts from the GIM realm:

"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us some email." -- 4 year old girl, misquoting the Lord's Prayer

"I'm glad I'm finally eight. This is the oldest I've ever been in my entire life!" -- 8 year old boy

"I'm not an oxymoron!" -- 7 year old

Thank you to those at Rinkworks for the smile I got reading these, and to those who put them up in the public domain.

You're gonna enjoy this!

Have I got a treat for you! It appears there's this guy who keeps a tape recorder always handy right beside his phone. Then, when a telemarketer calls he scares the poor guy half to death and records the event. He shows the poor telemarketer no mercy and literally turns him into a nervous wreck. You're gonna enjoy this! Click here to listen: telemarketer.

Talk about playing energies! Thank you, to belated friend Gary Halpert, for this fun!

Cheers!
Gail