I'm currently reading these two books and how wonderful they are. I have learned so much about life in general and more specifically about my own. Corrine Kenner and Uma Silbey have crafted their words and books very well and I have been moved by what I have read. Although, I am still new and inexperienced in the worlds of Tarot and Crystal Balls I find that I have not only been moved but changed as well.
In "Tarot Journaling, Corrine Kenner on page xxxiii under the title of "The Benefits of Tarot Journaling" she writes:
"Journaling will help you live a better life. Believe it or not, the simple act of keeping a journal has been scientifically proven to reduce stress, tension, anxiety, and depression---and researchers have shown that people who keep journals are better able to fight off opportunistic infections, so they get sick less often. A research psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, James Pennebaker, found that regular journaling strengthens immune cells, called T lymphocytes. Joshua M. Smyth, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at North Dakota State University, found that journaling decreases the symptoms of asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."
She goes on with:
"When you keep a tarot journal, your mind, body, and spirit will benefit. A tarot journal will help you sharpen your intuition, discover a new rapport with ancient symbols, and expand your worldview. . Before long, you will see growth and progress, both in your tarot readings and in your everyday life."
Although, I do write I am not specifically writing a journal but this is not my point of why change has taken place in my life. I rather attribute the change in my life to what I have read in the two books that make up the title of this blog. I am changed by the mere reading of these books and for that I am thankful.
On page 17 Corrine Kenner talks about personalizing your journal and one suggestion she makes is "to create a mandala---a circular design, like a stained glass window or a snowflake---that symbolizes spiritual wholeness."
I bring this up because a few years ago at Christmas my partner gave me a gift certificate to a tattoo parlor and was I ever excited about the gift but I thought long and hard and meditated on what kind of tattoo I should get before coming up with a "Daisy". But before rushing out to get this tattooed on my body I gave it a lot of thought and maybe 6, 7, 8, maybe 9 months after Christmas I finally got my tattoo and it was the "Daisy". The reason I chose a Daisy was because it represented my connection with the Divine, the Spirit, or the Energy of life that not only holds us all together but it also links us to everything on this planet thus representing the "spiritual wholeness that Corrine Kenner writes about in her book.
On Page 125 and 126 of her book Crystal Ball Gazing, Uma Silbey writes:
"So much of the time we find ourselves doing things we don't want to do. We may be working in jobs that we had to take, behaving in ways that don't bring us happiness, being buffeted around by the needs of those around us rather than responding to our own needs. Many of us, for one reason or another, are not doing what we want to do but what other people want us to do. Circumstances may have forced us into situations that we dislike, but we stay in them to survive. Sometimes we don't even trust our own perceptions and feelings, especially if they seem to be different from everyone else's. Our behavior, sometimes even our thoughts, are so dictated by cultural, religious, familial, and other forms of conditioning, that it's not surprising so many of us don't know what we want. For one reason or another, we have stilled our own voice so long that we don't even hear it anymore. It hasn't disappeared, though. It's there waiting for us if we can identify it."
Also in the next paragraph she writes:
"This crystal ball meditation can very quickly bring your own voice to the forefront."
I cannot wait to find and hear my own voice again.
May we all break free of the conditioning that closes most of off from life and our roles and purposes in it.
Take a peek at these books here.
Until next time. . .
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