Ok... your chance to save the world. Or at least one hippy from commiting suicide.

What would you recomend others to think or do to keep positive.?

 

One word?
YOGA!
YOGA! YOGA! YOGA!
Keeps you centered and as an added bonus may improve your sex life!
Cheers!

 

I agree, even though I have been extremely minimal as far as praticing it.

 

i would say keep positive & think. to me they are both needed to succeed in recovery and to stay alive. peace and love.

 

have friends and family around you...try to each out...be involved...sometimes no one wants to do anything...those outside need to push and persuade...

 

Learn to play an instrument, learn music theory, then jam with people, write songs,
record what you play, go out and perform with others. If you get lucky you can make money with that hobby, and save anyway if you don't, since music is cheaper than bars.

 

Be yourself, you can't please everyone so do what pleases you and long as you harm none.
Don't worry what people think, they don't live in your skin
Be true to self and don't take no shit from people.
Get back to the Garden as much as possible and be part of nature
Be moderate in your choice of indulgences
Be humble and willing to bend as the willow bends in the wind
Be gentel with small beings and protect them
Don't sweat the small stuff, and remember, it's all small stuff

 

SH, thats too cool....
and along the way, laugh often, love everyone, and live each day as if its your last one on Mother Earth.....

 

hummm.. I don't know if hippies actually committ suiside..I mean hippie is like a spiritual thing and we harm none.. esp our own temples.. we would just have to came back and relive it till we got it right so what's the point.. cowboy up and just get in there and get r done and go to the next level.

we don't care what people think about us, we just do what we gotta do and help who we can and duck and roll the poison arrows coming our way.

Be cool with yourself..

 

Hey Farmout.. good to see ya brother.. how's things up there.. is it gonna get rough for y'all weatherwise.. we're looking at some rough stuff this weekend..batten the hatches and hunker down..

 

Hey SH, gonna be wet & wild for the next few days. We are takin a lil road trip tommorrow. Goin up to Athens, Oh. for a friends B-Day party, pickin and grinnin and all that fun stuff. We'll all ride out the stormy weather together up there!
Peaceful Warm Fuzzy thoughts your way....... Farmout

 

This may sound stupid.....but go into the woods.......by yourself, just sit, be very quiet and hear the forest, go and hug a tree (seriously) it grounds you like nothing else can. After sitting in the forest for awhile, you cannot help but to begin to appreciate life and existence, I know everytime i'm losing my way....this very practice has pulled me back from an abysmal mindset.....it's magical.

 

Rob, that is exactly why I moved to the woods.
When I was very young things got very screwed up around me, I went to VT and found that by sitting in the forrest and being quiet a window seemed to open in my head and fresh air would rush in. Along would come the clearer thinking and answers.

I started talking to my mother this way, and whenever I was having a stuck moment, or was confused about something or needed to feel her, this always seemed the right way to do it.

You do not have to be in the woods, but it is grounding and seems to be the place where I feel right.
You can also meditate, just find the quiet place outside and inside yourself. And just open and listen.
Your answers are inside and all around you, you just have to be open to recieving the gifts your soul and the universe have for you.

Also I believe in the law of attraction. Being grateful for everything sent my way, even what may seem as the "bad shit" for it is in times of turmoil and trauma that we may grow the most. Sometimes we have to be shaken up....to move. We become stagnant in our way and our thinking and at times we need a cosmic kick in the ass.

However, if you are grateful, and you live in your light (SH's post is a great example) I believe positive things are attracted to us.
Determine what your definition of success is, and if you are not there....make every step towards your success count.

Mine is living in my little house with my sweetheart. Out in the woods as close to nature as I can. Carrying no debt, eating my own food, making wine and beer, waking up every day with a smile on my face. Going to bed each night satisfied with the way I lived that day. Talking with my kids and knowing I did my best with them. Helping others however I could that crossed my path. And getting to the place where I could find my own truth and have no fear of passing on.

I am successful. And that keeps me going.

I have been suicidal, almost succeeded with it. ( there are some old posts around here on that time in my life) I was young and lost. I looked for "things" to fufill me, I equated sex with love, I had a very skewed way of looking at life.
It all changed when I stopped going outside myself to "find myself" and went inward.
I met my soul, and embraced myself. I started to take care of that little lost girl. I learned to be quiet and look to my soul for answers. Your soul wants whats best for you, and it knows whats best for you.

HAHA first post in a long while and I am off on a rant again.....

***SMOOCHES to MARY!!!!***

 

That is awesome!! I did the exact same thing, I grew up in the D.C. metropolis......alot of bad things happened there, I ended up moving to VT and spending as much time in the woods as possible, that literally saved my life!! I know exactly what you mean!! I still live in VT to this day, this is my paradise and nothing can equate with the sheer beauty of the forest, lakes, rivers, and mountains.....it's completely turned my life around and i've never been happier. I found my personal heaven...and i'm so very grateful.

 

To remember that God loves you.

 

Could you elaborate on that?

 

from personal experience this dark mind state was hard to escape from. but when i pushed my friends and family away, they did not listen and kept telling me to get up...i would never be alone...they saved me as i was about to drown. i am very thankful to them. in the past 2 months i have been better. gotten ride of most of my black clothes and brought back out my color, tie dyes and peasent skirts. i left as Lovely Laurel and now I have come back as that. (that was my nickname by my friends & family) i feel the urge to live again. i am breathing.

 

If you have faith in Jesus then you will receive eternal life. If you really think about whether that fact is true or not and come up with “yes”, then that will make you think positive.

 

I've said it before, you go girl... been missing you...

Peace,
poor_old_dad

 

Going to to the woods is the best thing, if you can. Find little things you love, and put your heart and soul into them. Train yourself to see each and every moment as beautiful and a gift. If you are in a relationship that is toxic...get out!! (this was the most important thing I did when I realized I had lost myself, and that my soul was being diminished) If you can be alone and love it, it is a gift. Meditation helps to strengthen your will, so that you can make better choices, yoga asanas support that as well. Find a friend to talk to, there are many here who can support you with love and peace..... OmGanesha