Monthly Archives: August 2008

How Do You Suck?

I was talking with a good friend last night, and she mentioned that I was a great programmer. I found that a little surprising, as despite the unlikeliness of a lot of what I achieve, I don't generally think of myself in this way. pic by striatic I've thought a lot more deeply about this since, …

August 31, 2008 – 00:18 | By Si | Posted in geek, life | Comments (6)

Are You In Love With Your Pain?

A couple of years ago, when I first discovered EFT, it changed my life so much, so quickly, I immediately went around telling everyone I knew about it (Yes yes, I realise now how dopey & threatening this kind of behaviour is, I was just super excited) I remember one conversation particularly vividly. Telling a …

August 24, 2008 – 22:39 | By Si | Posted in healing | Comments (9)

Do We Ever Really Do Anything New?

Or is it all just patterns, repeating over and over? As you may be aware, I recently went through a breakup. As I've been processing this, I've started to see, very clearly, how little of what happened with the ex was actually about her. I saw: Patterns where she behaved identically to several different earlier relationships (in …

August 22, 2008 – 22:46 | By Si | Posted in healing, life | Comments (2)

The Upside to Abusing Cacao

Last night about 9pm I had a fruit salad. It was tasty. What wasn't so clever was putting raw chocolate sauce on it (cacao powder, coconut oil, raw honey). I went to sleep around 1–1:30ish. At 3:30 I woke up, wide awake, and could NOT get back to sleep. Ok, so cacao late at night = bad …

August 19, 2008 – 13:19 | By Si | Posted in home, raw | Comments (4)

Healing Your Dreamtime

Australian Aboriginals have a concept they call "Dreamtime" (or, more accurately "The Dreaming"). Very loosely speaking, this is the infinite spiritual cycle that parallels our reality, influencing & creating it. It created the world we live in, and continues to live on, in the present & the future. Now, what's even more interesting is the …

August 16, 2008 – 13:48 | By Si | Posted in healing, life | Comments (10)

The Importance Of Speech

"If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?" — Buddha I heard this quote the other day (thanks @tinybuddha), and it hit like a ton of bricks. pic by Trove Designs When I was growing up, I was always told "If you haven't got anything nice …

August 15, 2008 – 01:16 | By Si | Posted in health, life | Comments (12)

Thar's Gold In Them Thar Street

I saw this today: Yep, a glorious rainbow! Well, that's one end of it. But take a gander at the other end: Have a look at that!! The end of the rainbow is in front of the building. This means, of course, that there's a pot o' gold somewhere in my street! Woohoo! Amusingly, there's already …

August 13, 2008 – 10:44 | By Si | Posted in fun, home | Comments (3)

You Are Responsible For Your Parents (.. And Their Parents..)

Who cares who's right about Nature vs Nurture? The bottom line is — our parents affect us. Genetically, it's pretty obvious. Your parents are tall? You play basketball. They're black? It's a pretty safe bet (although not 100%, amusingly enough) that you are too, and so on. Emotionally (or environmentally/sociologically), it's a little more complex. And, …

August 10, 2008 – 14:02 | By Si | Posted in healing, life | Comments (4)

How To Kick A Bad Habit In 2 Minutes

So here's a quick trick I learned recently. It's using Neuro Linguistic Programming. But don't worry about that, it's super simple. I was shown this in terms of breaking bad shopping habits, but I figured, since I'm trying out a couple of weeks of 100% raw, why not use it on food places around town …

August 9, 2008 – 13:03 | By Si | Posted in healing | Comments (2)

Beauty At Dusk

Winter is finally thawing into spring, the days are slowly getting brighter. It's finally warm enough to venture onto the balcony at dusk. This is what beckoned to me: (click for larger version) From here I get a three hundred degree view of this every evening. Nothing quite like being overwhelmed by the splendour of nature. …

August 5, 2008 – 11:28 | By Si | Posted in home | Comments (0)