Pleasure All the Time

It's only in an alternative health class where people will smell something enticing in the room and all of a sudden start going around the room smelling everyone. I guess that's what a cuddle party is like. If I had a cuddle party, I would call it 'scratch n sniff n make animal noises.'

So today the question was, what do people come to you for? what is your role amongst friends, family, work? And I'd say for the most part, to come up with a crazy idea or theory, advice, play in some parallel universe or explore inner thoughts. What does that say about me? I dunno...It's like facing a reflection of yourself and feeling totally out of touch with it, a little alarming at first because you are looking at yourself from outside of yourself. You just have to look at it, talk to it and ask why it's there. But when you accept your role, things come naturally to you and there is never any hesitation to do things to help you grow into your role. You can't be a good practicioner if you don't know yourself and go on the path that will regenerate you. We help people more when we are in our own practice of being on the right path.

I also discovered a new character to add to my pantheon of inner world mythology. She's a gypsy, a belly dancer, with the face of a snake. A snake reclaiming her role as a vital force in life in an ideographic culture, shedding the skin to be reborn a healer. And she's misunderstood a lot because she feeds on pleasure and that can be daunting especially when you are taught to deny yourself pleasure. Life should be pleasurable. And when you are denied pleasure, it's like candy that you learn to hoard because you don't know when you can have it next. Better to take little nibs here and there all the time and to enjoy each bite.