Gabrielle Gassin
A mother’s musings on life
Category: Random
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Sleep quietens the hive of action from the outside world. Once slept on, if the mind settles deeply enough to allow it, a problem is no longer seated at the height of unease and uncertainty, but seems more approachable and solvable. Such is the glory of a full night of rest. It is simply that…
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It’s becoming clear to me as I travel through life that a sense of satisfaction is transient for many of us. Framed in myriad ways by thousands who have come before, is the concept that we are all on a similar expedition; we are all Looking For Something. Sometimes the desire to satisfy this at…
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If you’re in the realm of disposable income that allows you to spend in excess of three hundred dollars on a little piece of technology to assist in your meditation practice, you’d want to hear the birds that sing when you hit the bliss brain wave. The ‘Muse‘ headset application plays the lovely sound of…
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I’ve lost my way. There’s been too much thinking going on. I’ve been misled; believing that planning to write would get me writing. “Planning” has kept me away from the pen, the keypad, the notebook. Because a plan begins with an idea, and an idea could come from anywhere. But thinking too hard has interrupted…
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It can take some serious strength of character to handle a difficult person with compassion, but what can sometimes happen if it’s done well is the total subversion of a tentatively terrible situation. Recognition of The Ego in oneself and then the ability to quieten it must first occur, so that you don’t feel the…
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The bridge to happiness and contentment in life can depend almost entirely on the colour of language that forms in one part of the brain and is received in another. Self Talk is the modern name for the little jabber jabber chattering on your shoulder, dictating your every move, reviewing your decisions past and present…
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It used to be a regular occurrence. Three or four times a week, the day would begin wrapped within the flesh of the other. From deep sleep the journey to surface involved one hand sleepily, slowly feeling the outer thigh of another with one nose to the other’s neck, warm breath and warming loins in…
Gabrielle Gassin 