10 Things Meme: Day 3

Day 01: 10 things about you.
Day 02: 10 things you love.
Day 03: 10 things you hate.
Day 04: 10 things you want to say to one person.
Day 05: 10 wishes.
Day 06: 10 items you can’t live without.
Day 07: 10 important people.
Day 08: 10 of your favorite songs.
Day 09: 10 ways to win your heart.
Day 10: final 10 words.

1. Violence (killing, bullying, animal abuse, death in the circle of life, physical pain, etc.)
2. Lying/deceiving
3. Arrogance
4. Losing people
5. Uncertainty
6. Rejection and abandonment
7. People taking advantage of others
8. Anxiety
9. Vomiting
10. Insults and degredation

Change Through Initiation

-"Anytime we undergo an initiation, we experience a death of our previous identity. When we come through the other side, it's as if we were a new creature, emerging gloriously from the primordial ooze that was our former life. Shaking off the muck and the fear, we turn our face to the sun and move forward boldly in our new skin. After the initiation of death, we no longer identify with the circumstances that used to seem so very important. The new self has a wisdom the old self lacked. When you are resurrected, you realize you have a sacred power to participate in making your world a paradise."
-pg. 173, Illumination: The Shaman's Way of Healing, by Alberto Villoldo

5 Gratitudes

1. Finished reading Illumination: The Shaman's Way of Healing
2. Seeing April and Phil and going with them to Babies R' Us and then eating Chinese food with them
3. My mother buying me a sandwich from Panera Bread
4. Feeling no depression today and feeling less anxiety
5. Feeling hope that I will get over certain people and certain elements of my past