178_”Knowing”

Knowing what to say at the right moment.

Empathising with someone who is struggling.

Knowing your credentials and what they mean.

Knowing how to do something.

We spend a lifetime learning, yet we know inherently, tacitly, how to cope, how to achieve, & how to evolve.

We reflect our own knowing, so do not be stifled.

Sculpture under the sea,

Relic of old,

Something of yesteryear,

That appears,

And disappears,

Hidden like a mirror-glass.

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They say if you accept failure, you are more likely to be congruent with success, because you learn at a faster rate; so, do not fail. There is a level of knowing over learning that achieves. Yet, through habitual semi-obsessive-compulsive-disorder, the “Knowing” gets lost at sea, and you need to be in the flow of things, moving along all of the time.

‘EL’ was known and required, hit on the streets of Cardiff, and has helped to make a City of God, and a city of abundance in both creative thought, and environmental “Knowing”, never mind it’s new towers of strength in the Hayes reaching for the heavens. On the flip side, no knowing what it meant, equals confusion and initial bafflement, but it makes for a relaxed environment post-apocalyptic experience, and “Knowing” in those inhabitants who live there by way of belief in them and kindness towards their hearts and minds.

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Take cooking for example: we all know we must follow the recipe, yet how many times have we adapted a recipe, or added too little or too much of something to bring it under our own decision-making power and our control? We must follow instructions, granted if they are not useful to us, then we do not follow them, but like all gadgets, read the instruction manual, before blaming the product and taking it back to the shop, rather than ourselves, for not understanding and “Knowing”.

There is a similar analogy for “Knowing” as predicting our future. But how can we know for sure, what will happen to us? Or do we know to some extent? We have established there are instructions involved in our futures. And a set of instructions to everything. So, by knowing as opposed to feeling depressed and constantly tripping over ourselves, to learn again and again: the same things; instruct a belief you will have a good day, a good week, a good month or a good year, and keep doing it, until light shines on you with an answer.

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‘Acceptance over expectations equals greater achievements’: an old Buddhist phrase and we all know how it is achieved, but often fall for high expectations – causing overdose, or partying to rise out of oppression, when taking stock of oneself and one’s position would be a better way of rising to the point, than reaching for the bitter pill. Acceptance and good sleep hygiene will lead to no more depression, good thoughts, and better hearts and minds.

So, we work in cycles and need to experience and express ourselves when we are down and tearful, similarly we need to share fond memories with friends and family. What we really need is consistency, if we are likely to dip and trough, heighten and apex, when a plateau would be right.

Claustrophobia can teach us about knowing and learning, when someone gets in your way, and learning stops, like “Knowing”. If we are to stifle someone, we have probably gone wrong and need to give them and ourselves some realistic space from each other.

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Nature is gathered together and grows with each other, without evergreen, dying away at this time of year. Or in juxtaposition with its eternal sexual pro-creation, sowing its seed, at different times of year. To survive, and to fight for life, doing it like the birds and bees. It knows it must endure the weather outside, so, feel for it, as its knowing will be hard.

But it always refreshes itself in Spring/Summer, however hard the Winter waxes. The waning will wear off and our claque will come to applaud us for another year set for harvest. We all know we must yearn for new things in the coming year, and reap our fruits by early spring, building and building, until we “Know”, we are ready for another great festive celebration of life and its cycles, making us just who we are and always “Knowing” we can win!

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Amen

Love AB x