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I meditated in many different forms over the years ever since middle school. Even before In know what mediation and Shamanism were, I was interested and practicing.
It was a way for me to understand the self better and what we were doing here
i'll keep an eye out for it, just in case!
i used meditation, visualization & positive affirmations during my homebirth & it was absolutely amazing. I never really gave too much credit to meditation before that, now I speak highly of it to everyone.
http://www.imosh.com/EARRINGS/pages/EAR225.htm
It looked like that but a little smaller, and it was attached to a ball for a captive ring. It did tangle a bit, though
It was a silver skull wearing a top-hat smoking a cigar. I've seen necklaces of it, and one earring that was close, but it was one of those fishhook style earrings. The one I had was attached to a ball that went into a captive hoop. The ones I see online are colourful, or at least the eyes are coloured in. The one I had was tiny and no colour, just pewtery/silvery coloured. It meant a lot to me. It was my gaurdian
And I used to meditate to the point where, even today, pain means very little to me. I found, through meditation, that it is relativistic, and can be controlled by your mind. So gauging my ears is a way to keep practicing that discipline
@Valerie -lol "Valeriemas!" that's a cute idea for birthdays
@Baba- what kind of charm was it? i do think stretching can be therapeutic, i have also let mine shrink up some just to be able to stretch them again. even my piercings that had minor issues or something i miss. i think it's just the feeling of being bare or naked. I used to have SOOO many & now I barely have anything...I think it's time to get pierced!
I had 00g in both lobes, 10 and 12g up each side and a cartilageone on my left gauged to 12g. My lip, tongue and septum.
I took all of them but the 10g on my left ear out about 6 years ago. The 00g's never closed though. They shrunk to about a 4 in my left ear and 2 in my right. I left the 10g in because I liked the placement, and the charm, but when I finally took it out, I lost the charm. Never found it again. I really miss that one. NO one seems to sell that charm anywhere
I let my lobes close up periodically to about 4's and 6's but once every few years I gauge them back to 0's for a few weeks or a month or 2, then take the tunnels out and let them close all over again. It'stherapeuticfor me.
I don't miss my lip. I had that for about 2-3 months and took it out cause it was constantly drying out my lip and making it sore.
I don't miss my septum. That hurt the most of all my piercings, and I did all my ears myself.
My tongue I miss once in a while, but I remember biting down on the ball too many times that I don't really want it back.
The cartilage one really bothered me and always had a lump of scar tissue on the back that took about 2 years to finally go away. So I don't miss that
I know that I miss my retired ones... I have 3 retired. But I still have quite a few to make up for it. :-/
Hehe, "giftmas" is a good idea and makes sense. Lol, I call my birthday Valriemas and my son's birthday Devlinmas so why not?
Baba what piercing have you taken out? I miss my retired ones a lot, do you miss yours?
@ Valerie love that you want grey hair, I knew a girl who wanted to have silver old lady hair sooo badly lol
@Both of ya- I know some people that celebrate "giftmas" so it takes the Christ out of it? we go to family for holidays just so we get to see them (we have to travel a distance & holidays are when everyone normally comes together) but we celebrate more the season then an actual holiday. We will let our children know about who believes what but I'm a firm believer in finding your own path. They can explore whatever options they like
Christmas would be the only holiday we'd celebrate. I guess we'd have to take them to my family for some holidays (my parents areconservativejews). I hate the idea of how they celebrate, though. So we've already decided that once we leave their house, we'd explain to our kids that it's not real, and that it's just something my parents believe. Christmas would have no religiousconnotationsat all for them