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AmyLansky.com Posted on April 3, 2012 by AmyLanskyApril 3, 2012

I may not be a superwoman, but it appears I have super consciousness!  Well, anyway, the folks at Superconsciousness.com seem to love my book…  Check out this amazing review of Active Consciousness and interview of me, which appeared on April 2, 2012.  Interesting that they chose to use that old photo of me, Izaak, and Max at one of my band gigs (probably circa 1997 or so). I am very excited and grateful for the opportunity to be featured on the Superconsciousness.com site.

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An ant works. A human Lives. Even a dog Lives.
Be a dog for a day.

AmyLansky.com Posted on March 22, 2012 by AmyLanskyMarch 22, 2012

Even though I haven’t had a “job” for many years, I still act like I do. I’m extremely disciplined and never procrastinate. I can work on a project alone for years without any need for external verification or assurance. I just do it—step by step by step. Once I set a goal and “know” where I’m going, I can do it. That’s how I did my PhD and wrote two books. It may take me six years start to finish (interestingly, all three projects took that long), but once I’ve set my mind to do something worthwhile, I do it.  Heck—I’m so disciplined that I really can make a box of chocolates or cookies last for a month or two, limiting myself to only one a day.

This may make me sound like a robot, but actually I’m very creative. Fortune has given me a life where I’m now free to pursue my interests and causes and creative urges.  It’s just that my work ethic is too rigid.  I don’t give myself any slack. In my experience, many people live like this—especially here in busy Silicon Valley. “Fun” is reserved for the weekend or the evenings. Of course, Sunday is laundry day, but still.

Despite not having a job to go to, I get up and follow my regimen.  It might be reading the newspaper, sometimes meditating for half an hour, going swimming or doing my qi-gong exercises, doing my slated writing or other “job” task for the day, and shopping for and cooking dinner, all interspersed with hours of unending E-mail that I have to keep up with—otherwise I’m under a deluge that can take weeks to recover from. I have to answer E-mails promptly from my readers and I have to keep up with this list or that, because I must stay informed and keep up with the “latest”—whether it be a political or social cause or the latest word in alternative health or spirituality. Hell, I’m so regimented and hard on myself that I have to force myself to read fiction. Unless some reading serves a “learning” purpose for me, I usually won’t make time for it unless it’s when I’m actually on vacation, away from home.

Today I woke up and I just didn’t want to go swimming. I swim in an outdoor pool, and it was dark and cold and windy outside. Of course I wrestled with myself. “You’ll feel better if you swim. You must not slough off.” After I convinced myself that I could swim tomorrow and still keep up with my regimen, I meditated. Sometimes I feel a “message” coming in when I meditate. It’s relatively rare, but when I feel it, I pick up a little notebook I have for that purpose and do a little “automatic” writing. In a light trance-like state, I just let words pour out onto the page without really thinking about it. The sensation is like having one word after another just pop into my head. If I feel I’m beginning to steer it, I just stop for while until another word pops in.  Today I got this message:

“You are holding back something from yourself—your ability to know from within. You are wrestling with yourself. It is blocking your reach, your self understanding. The secret is to let go of yourself—to float freer than ever before. Stop regimenting. Stop souring yourself with strictures. Stop pouring wrath on yourself. Stop fighting and you will finally feel free. It’s mental, not physical. Everything is mental—including the physical. You know it, you teach it, but you don’t feel it. Reach for your limit, not for safety. Do anything. It’s OK. No one is watching except yourself.”

After this fairly clear message I decided to run my day (like I very occasionally do on a day without any other commitments) by feel only. I only do exactly what I feel like doing. The first thing I felt like doing was going outside and taking photos of my front yard which is about to undergo some re-landscaping. The next thing I did was read a book out in back of my house—a book I’d put on the backburner for several weeks. Then I decided to make my bed. Then I looked at the clock. It was past “lunchtime”. I thought, “I should have lunch.”  Then I realized I wasn’t hungry.  I meditated some more. I realized I finally wanted to write the first substantial entry of the AmyLansky blog. Looking through past notes I have made about sudden inspirations, I found the line I wrote above:

“An ant works. A human Lives. Even a dog Lives. Be a dog for a day.”

Today I am being a dog. We usually give our pets way more slack than we give our selves. A dog can pretty much just do what it wants all day. It can sit and look out at nature. It can investigate new smells. It can chase a fairy or its tail. It can bask in the sun and taste the wind. It can express love and joy and pain and sorrow. It can be its Self and not worry or feel guilt about it. It can Live. A dog doesn’t act like a robot, but often we humans do.

Today I’ve decided to Live—at least for a little while.

 

 

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Welcome to AmyLansky.com!

AmyLansky.com Posted on March 13, 2012 by AmyLanskyMarch 13, 2012

Welcome to my new creative outlet!

Many of you visiting this blog may be fans of one or both of my two books and their accompanying newsletters —

  • Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy (2003)
  • Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within (2011)

Obviously, I write a lot about homeopathy and consciousness!

But I felt the need for another place to funnel my ideas, writing, art, music, and other forms of creativity.  This is that place.

Sometimes I may write about things pertaining to homeopathy and/or consciousness that just don’t fit within the scope of my more “educational” newsletters for the general public.  Sometimes I may write about politics or social issues or art or culture or religion.  Sometimes I may want to show you my latest artistic or crafty creation, play or sing you a song, or share a new recipe.  And I want to be able to do it without being tied to a monthly schedule or to restrictions about what may or may not be suitable or acceptable to all of my readers.

So for those of you who may not agree with or appreciate all of my creations, know that just because some of them don’t feel “right” to you, others may still be valuable!

For me, life is all about creativity.  I feel most alive when I am creating or discovering something — small or big. And when I go to bed at night, I feel the happiest when I know I have created or learned something totally new that day.

So take some posts or leave them, I hope you at least find the AmyLansky blog interesting and fun. Welcome!

Love, Amy

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