E Free and Loving It!

Today I am grieving many things. A good woman has died, a familiar northern community is being seriously threatened by fire, another good woman is losing her job, and my 10-day e free break has ended. I feel the lump in my throat, the heaviness in my chest and the tears trying to escape from my eyes. I take another deep breath and feel it all and let it express itself through me. I am grateful for the ability to feel and breathe and feel more. Even though I am feeling sad life is good. I have had times in my life when I could not feel anything but numbness. I am grateful for the healing that I have experienced to help me move through the trauma and terror that held my joy and sorrow and the spectrum of feelings in between as prisoners. Feeling is good. Being fully awake and alive is good.
For the last ten days I have refrained from viewing any e material on any type of e screen and I must say that it was glorious. I felt myself coming back to myself. I felt my mind slowing and becoming much more present. I noticed that I was a better listener and observer and that I was fully present for most of my interactions with other human beings. Another kind of numbness was lifting from me. So as I return to this e world I feel myself grieving for what was and I am listening to this and being with it. What can I learn from this? How can I bring the gifts of the e free life into the e life? What parameters can I set for myself and my e life? These are good questions that are swimming in my belly and deserve some answers. I shall dedicate some journey time to seek some wise counsel.
How about your life? Do you have e free days built into it? Some of you may remember a time when most businesses, services and retail stores were closed on Sundays. Sundays were naturally quieter and slower paced. They were healing and nurturing days for many. Perhaps it is time to take back some of the solitude and weave it into our lives. I laugh out loud when I think about some of the titles of books on the best sellers lists that we read about or order on line. Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now”, Sarah Ban Breathnach’s “Simple Abundance” are fabulous books and we devour them, but we keep going out and buying more gadgets to keep us connected wherever we are. Hmmm, I don`t think we are getting the point. I laugh too when I think about some of the fiction that we read together in elementary school back in the 70`s that predicted the expansion of our leisure time because of all of the automation coming our way. And I am dating myself when I remember the days that we had simple telephones without answering machines to stay in touch with one another. How many points of contact have you established in your life that you must maintain on a daily basis?
Think about it. Maybe you can set some boundaries for yourself and live some of your waking time e free. I do know that some of you already do and have great stories about this to share with others and inspire them. Perhaps you will take some of your e time and share them with readers. Can you hear me laughing out loud again?