Where are you, Jim Carey?
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I’ve had a lot of inquiries in the past month because I haven’t been blogging. It’s nice to feel missed. Here’s what I’ve been up to:You often hear me say that reducing stress – both on the mind and the body – is an important part of healing and staying healthy. Indeed, I’ve often said that all stress is self-induced. Well, that’s what I’ve been doing – reducing my stress to stay healthy.
A month ago I found myself becoming overwhelmed by the world around me. It wasn’t my voluntary work-related responsibilities that were getting to me as much as it was the news of the world. The Gulf of Mexico being turned into a dead zone, the implementation of Codex Alimentarius by Executive Order in the US, a health care reform bill that will require the micro-chipping of all Americans, widespread political corruption and creeping fascism… sigh.
So to reduce my stress and keep my health I removed myself from the world for a bit. One of my last postings in June was, “Change Your Life, Change Your Health.” I took my own advice.
Oh, I still answered email and filled orders – those are fun things to do – but I turned off the news and went to work around the farm. I did a lot of landscaping (I keep about five acres around the cabin mowed and park-like), creating several huge brush piles with what I trimmed from the trees around the yard. I also gave the lawn some attention, filling last winter’s rabbit holes, and I put up more bird feeders and birdhouses. While I didn’t get a garden in this year, I’ve put a lot of work into my compost pile and the garden soil, getting ready for a late garden this Fall.
Indoors I put down new flooring in the living room and the kitchen, and gave the cabin a good cleaning from top to bottom. I built a new desk and rearranged my office. New paint in the living room and new curtains in every room made a big difference, too.
Now I’m back, and feeling much better. This has been a reminder to me that good health is a journey, not a destination, and that we have to take care of our own needs – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual – before we can help others.
In the future I’m going to leave the depressing aspects of health reporting to others. I don’t mean that in a bad way; it’s important to know what’s happening in the world, especially since the mass media ignores so much of what’s truly important. But I’ll leave it to others like Mike Adams and Dr. Mercola to let you know about studies that show office workers have more skin cancer than construction workers, and how pages 1001-1008 of the health care reform law require a class III electronic identification device for all Americans, and why that means you’ll have to be micro-chipped. (Oops, I sighed again.)
I want to thank everyone who emailed, wondering where the newsletters were, and if I was OK. I’m fine, I’m great, and I’m having a wonderful – if a bit hot – summer in Georgia.
Blissings upon you and yours,
Jim Carey
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July 26, 2010 am31 12:42 pm
Glad your back Jim. I understand completely. If someone is making a “live” public statement or facts about a situation are being presented, I can come to my own conclusions about it. But I am always telling my husband to turn the news pundits off. The stories they may be reporting may indeed have good news in them, but it’s the jockeying and bantering back and forth with the negative scenarios of “if” this or that did or didn’t happen, that bothers me. They love to keep the public on edge and in an hallucinogenic state and call it “news”. The REAL news go unreported.
July 26, 2010 am31 1:07 pm
Jim,so good to have you back and also so good to hear that you too are fasting from the world around you. After 40 years as a high-tech exec (who was mostly raw since meeting Ann Wigmore in the 70s), I have spent the past two years fasting from everingthing except retraining myself as a massage therapist/energy therapist and living foods coach. Loving life more now than ever before. I also enjoy emails and reading about all the wonderful new “inventions” coming our way from the brilliant health-conscious people in our world. It is the best of times and the worst of times, and it is all very exciting.
Thank you for your service and your inner peace,
Robina
July 26, 2010 am31 2:34 pm
Welcome to the Real world Jim, I have not listened to the radio or news on TV in yrs. I delete all worldly news including Dr M and the other gentlemen. I am in the partiot movement so I get a deluge of the Real facts of what is going on and the things that are disexted for our viewing and hearing by the (Family) owned media.
Law of Attraction:
Focus on the LIFE, Economy & Life you want and it will be attracted to You.
We are all.. one and just think about this:
When everyone in the world or even Half the world, all at one time.. just stood and SMILED ( millions of people smiling at the same time) what kind of a difference would that make ??
Love at You and Welcome back,
Geri Mac
July 27, 2010 am31 7:40 pm
I fully agree, Geri. I guess I got out into the world too much. It’s great to be back in the woods, again.
July 28, 2010 am31 11:21 am
Congratulations!
Fulfilling your commitment to your own well-being is the only action worth engaging in. I have read very few of your blogs all the way through, but this one I have read and reread, because it rings so true.
You keep it up, Jim. Don’t ask what the world needs. Just ask what makes Jim Carey come alive, because what the world needs is people who are alive.
July 28, 2010 am31 11:31 am
SHOCK WAVE
Have I told you, lately, that your smile is sunshine;
That I am so happy just to see your face?
Yes! I’ve seen you, lately, and your smile is sunshine!
You have sent a shock wave through my time and space.
There is a deeper meaning to what we see and feel;
There is a hidden message in every word we hear;
There is a secret code, too, each time I see your smile!
Still round some corner there may wait
A brand new road or secret gate,
And though I oft have passed them by,
The time has come at last when I
Can take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
July 28, 2010 am31 11:38 am
Jim,
I’ve been having anxiety issues over the political stuff in our country these days. The micro chipping is something that keeps me up at night and I wonder, what hope do we have? What’s going to happen to us and this country? This does nothing positive for my diet because I get “what’s the point” munchies. Anybody else have those? Sigh.
July 29, 2010 am31 1:03 pm
Thank you, David.
July 30, 2010 am31 8:37 am
They love to keep the public on edge and in an hallucinogenic state and call it “news”. The REAL news go unreported.
Don’t ask what the world needs ask what do YOU need to be fully alive? ust ask what makes Jim Carey come alive, because what the world needs is people who are alive.
Still round some corner there may wait
A brand new road or secret gate,
And though I oft have passed them by,
The time has come at last when I
Can take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
re Jim carey sabbatical …
Hi, thanks for the reminder everyone, and the beautiful thoughts and poetry. I just quit my job of 6 years serving the field of veterinary acupuncture and chinese medicine, against all recommendations and friendly advice since I am a young and vibrant 68 but have barely enough from social security to make ends meet, so friendly advice givers point out that I am not exactly what the job market is seeking, later on when I need money, I will be sorry.
Sometimes it looks like your choice is between a rock and a hard place, i.e., I was working often 65-70 hour workweeks as I was the main organizer and coordinator of most of the Institute, and I had no energy left for handling my own fundamental needs like personal, home and car maintenance.
My desire for leaving was to take a 1-2 year sabbatical in which I plan to do as the Spirit moves me. Things like weed, put in a new kitchen sink and toilet, research and buy a new computer, grow my own food, especially greens, write, be in Nature, be quiet, beholden to no one but my inner promptings. The first 3 weeks I was lost without my routines, I was oveerwhelmed by the floating free time and all my aspirations to take care of myself. Then one day its like I stopped holding my breath and started to take care of myself with all the gifts I had developed to do my job and to take care of others and do service for the suffering animals and their owners. Now I see my own suffering and am addressing it. I was longing to receive my own loving care. Vegan/Raw Vegan on and off for 30 years since I met Viktoras and Sproutman and read John Robbins first book. Now committed and loving it for the past year and now, in offering my energies to the Silence, I find myself effortlessly taking care of myself by listening and getting out of my own way. It is infallible and seamless to find and follow this inner Light and Guidance. It has so many names but they are all One.
Thank you Jim and All, for the reminders to fast from the harsh fear-mongering world. It just needs our forgiveness and compassion, not condemnation, because its doing the best it collectively can. We can do much for it by just attending to our own awakening of consciousness and enjoyment of Life. Thank you so much all, and especially Jim for being the Muse for these outpourings. Namaste and Aloha!!! BarbaraL…
July 30, 2010 am31 8:53 am
Thank you, Barbara. Congratulations!