I am always suprised when my ego unexpectedly shows itself; I was out clothes shopping and tried on a outfit that was a few sizes smaller than I wear, and it fit......of course I bought it regardless of the fact that it wasn't what I wanted based purely on my ego jumping up and down about the label size. Now when I got home and hung it up next to another outfit I immediately noticed that it was in fact bigger than the dress next to it. A dress in my normal size!
Really you think I would be well aware of the 'industry' and the tricks they employee to fool us into buying things. I went back to australia not that long ago to visit family and had a conversation with a young girl from europe who was working in a clothing store on bondi beach in sydney. My daughter was trying on clothes in size aussie 12 in canada she would be a 10 and in usa an 8. The shop assistant was surprised we bought anything thinking we where american because 'they' the americans get really upset that they are in such big sizes in australia and that is just not right.
Really are we so stupid! We believe sizing over our scales. Marilyn Monroe was a size 12, in todays marketplace she would be running around saying she was a 8. We need to be in single didgits;really. I grew up a health size 10-12 now if I was that size I would be considered in the plus size market by the fashion industry.
We need to get a grip here- we are being supersized everywhere we go - we consume 50 percent more than the last few generations and we are all getting bigger. Except for our clothing sizes - one plus one folks - this is all a huge con. One of my closest friends is tiny in australia she is a size 6-8 in america she would be a 2 are you kidding me why are we so consumed with being considered a zero I mean grow the `f` up people and become real again. Maybe if we all stoppped being so blind we could actually become a real caring person once again, that issues not ego mattered, that what you are not what you look like was important here.
Just saying......
Friday, May 27, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
My Thought for the day
I sit in stillness and allow my thoughts to drift away from me....
I find that I then become aware again because my mind has decided
to become fixated on either a thought or idea that I had no idea I was holding onto.
This is a good time to work through it and let it go and then allow yourself to return to relaxation. Trying to ignore a thought or idea just doen not work, your mind will just reintroduce the thougth normally when you reach a deep level of peace.
We are equally simply as we are complex in our design, the quicker we realise this and work with ourselves the quicker we will resolve the issues we need to. We all have our own answers with in ourselves we just need to take the time to listen and to respond to them.
We often don't because we feel we are not good enough or wise enough to treat ourselves or we like the drama that ignoring issues will provide.
I believe we need to be O.K. with being simple and boring most of the time, because in reality for most of us that is who we are. If we can come into acceptance of that then we would feel so much better about ourselves and our lifes.
I believe we either create or hang onto drama because we then think we are
different or better than others around us. We need the adrenialian rush that we get because in alot of ways it feels better than the normalness of our every day life. We become add
icted to that rush.
We need to become attatched to our simply self and allow that to be a deeper part of who we really are.
We are all part of the human conciousness, all part of the sameness.....but we spend so much time and energy fighting that thought in oour aim to be unique....and the irony is once we accept our sameness our individual self well naturally shine!
Just a thought
Blessings Be
Debra Rae
I find that I then become aware again because my mind has decided
to become fixated on either a thought or idea that I had no idea I was holding onto.
This is a good time to work through it and let it go and then allow yourself to return to relaxation. Trying to ignore a thought or idea just doen not work, your mind will just reintroduce the thougth normally when you reach a deep level of peace.
We are equally simply as we are complex in our design, the quicker we realise this and work with ourselves the quicker we will resolve the issues we need to. We all have our own answers with in ourselves we just need to take the time to listen and to respond to them.
We often don't because we feel we are not good enough or wise enough to treat ourselves or we like the drama that ignoring issues will provide.
I believe we need to be O.K. with being simple and boring most of the time, because in reality for most of us that is who we are. If we can come into acceptance of that then we would feel so much better about ourselves and our lifes.
I believe we either create or hang onto drama because we then think we are
different or better than others around us. We need the adrenialian rush that we get because in alot of ways it feels better than the normalness of our every day life. We become add
icted to that rush.
We need to become attatched to our simply self and allow that to be a deeper part of who we really are.
We are all part of the human conciousness, all part of the sameness.....but we spend so much time and energy fighting that thought in oour aim to be unique....and the irony is once we accept our sameness our individual self well naturally shine!
Just a thought
Blessings Be
Debra Rae
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
FORTITUDE
RESOLVE, STRENGTH, INTERNAL FORTITUDE, MORAL COURAGE; WE ALL HAVE IT, SOME OF US IN ABUNDANCE OTHERS OCCASSIONALY ALLOW IT TO TRICKLE OUT WHEN BACKED INTO A CORNER. I FIND IT SAD THAT THE TRUE HERO IS UN-NOTICED, THEY GO ABOUT THERE DAY DISPLAYING ALL OF THE ABOVE AND NEVER ASK FOR PRAISE....THE SOLDIERS THE POLICE AND EMERGENCY RESPONDERS THE SINGLE PARENTS WORKING MANY JOBS AND THE LIST COULD GO ON AND ON.
WHO DO WE SEE SEEKING PRAISE FOR SEEMILY DOING THE RIGHT THING, THE POLITICIANS THE RELIGOUS RIGHT WINGERS, THE 'STARS' AND 'CELEBS' WE GIVE SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY TOO.
SAD, SAD, SAD IS HOW I FEEL ABOUT THAT...THE STATE OF OUR TODAY, THE LACK OF STRENGTH IN OUR OWN CHARACTERS. I ENCLUDE MYSELF IN THAT STATEMENT...TO ADMIRE SOME ONE FOR JUST DOING THE RIGHT THING BECAUSE THEY ARE FAMOUS OR RICH OR POWERFUL....
I WOULD MUCH RATHER ADMIRE THOSE WHO DO BECUASE THEY KNOW IT IS RIGHT AND JUST
NOT BECAUSE THEY NEED ADMIRATION. TO THOSE MILLIONS OF UNSUNG HERO'S OUT THERE I WILL IN RESPECT OF YOU, TRY HARDER TO BE MORE LIKE YOU ARE IN MY OWN LIFE. TO REMEMBER TO BE LOVING, KIND AND MORAL TO LIFT MY INNER FORTITUDE BECAUSE I CAN NOT BECAUSE I NEED TO!
BLESSING BE
DEBRA RAE
WHO DO WE SEE SEEKING PRAISE FOR SEEMILY DOING THE RIGHT THING, THE POLITICIANS THE RELIGOUS RIGHT WINGERS, THE 'STARS' AND 'CELEBS' WE GIVE SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY TOO.
SAD, SAD, SAD IS HOW I FEEL ABOUT THAT...THE STATE OF OUR TODAY, THE LACK OF STRENGTH IN OUR OWN CHARACTERS. I ENCLUDE MYSELF IN THAT STATEMENT...TO ADMIRE SOME ONE FOR JUST DOING THE RIGHT THING BECAUSE THEY ARE FAMOUS OR RICH OR POWERFUL....
I WOULD MUCH RATHER ADMIRE THOSE WHO DO BECUASE THEY KNOW IT IS RIGHT AND JUST
NOT BECAUSE THEY NEED ADMIRATION. TO THOSE MILLIONS OF UNSUNG HERO'S OUT THERE I WILL IN RESPECT OF YOU, TRY HARDER TO BE MORE LIKE YOU ARE IN MY OWN LIFE. TO REMEMBER TO BE LOVING, KIND AND MORAL TO LIFT MY INNER FORTITUDE BECAUSE I CAN NOT BECAUSE I NEED TO!
BLESSING BE
DEBRA RAE
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