Objective:

With the My Story portion of this blog not yet finished, I wanted to give some direction on where all of this is going.  I did not anticipate writing so much about myself under the My Story part.  As you can see from my story, I did not have the greatest childhood.  I know there are people who have had it worse, but I am not here to compare.  Life has taught me one thing; people have different strengths and different weaknesses.  For one person, just having your parent raise their voice seems harsh for someone else that wouldn't bother them.  Some people can walk away from drugs others spend years in addiction.  I am writing this much about myself so that people out there know I can relate to them. 

As will be disclosed in My Story the childhood wasn't the only trauma, but because of the childhood some of the later trauma was mishandled.  Where I am headed with this blog as I bring the My Story page current is what I am doing to heal.  That's right I said doing not did.  This blog may turn out to be a part of the healing process. 

As for the name of the blog, I will explain a little.  In My Story Part V:  I talked a little bit about meditation, and how it seemed to help me find some clarity in my life.  In our daily lives, there can be so much noise that we lose touch with ourselves.  I am a husband and father of three kids.  I have a full-time job and I am going to school to get a degree in engineering so I can get into a job that doesn't deal with trauma on a regular basis.  This year was the first year that I sat and meditated in probably 5-6 years.  My children are also currently 10, 6, and 4.  It has been difficult to get up to those mountaintops and sit quietly listening to nature and just soaking it in.  You know just being out among nature can have an amazing grounding effect on the body, but you have to eliminate the noise.  

We are one of those weird families that doesn't have cable in our home.  We have television sets, but not cable.  I still get news by reading it online or picking up a newspaper or listening to it on the radio, but not from the telly, unless I am at a restaurant that has televisions on the news.  This I would strongly recommend to anyone.  You would be surprised at just how much the television clutters up your brain.  

Meditation can really help our brain, body, and yes spirit.  In fact, when I first started to learn meditation from my sensei, almost two decades ago, he taught me to enter meditation by first forming a triangle with my two hands.  The three sides of the triangle represent body, mind, and spirit and our goal is to have all three of them in balance.