September 26th, 2008, by Shelley Riutta
Here is good old Buckingham Palace.
Here is Leicester Square. Leicester Square is the centre of London’s cinema land, and one of the signs marking the Square bears the legend “Theatreland.” It is claimed that the Square contains the cinema with the largest screen and the cinema with the most seats (over 1600).
Here I am hanging out with my friend Ghandi at St. James Square.
I was at Covent Garden Piazza and there was a guy doing silly antics in front of the crowd. Here he is doing a big build up to chopping a cucumber in half on a guys belly! There was always someone different doing some stunt for the crowd. This guy was the best I had seen at holding the crowds attention–very fun.
We were at Covent Gardens again and there was a fun group performing in this courtyard.
Notice the guy at the the bottom of the stairs………
He would block people from going up the stairs unless they put some money in their basket–it was very funny!
September 15th, 2008, by Shelley Riutta
Think of a challenging peron in your life right now? Someone who is pushing your buttons in some way. Believe it or not but that person is trying to help you! All challenging situations and people are helping you to grow and change in important ways. Are you treating the experience as a learning experience or as just an experience of frustration that you would like to just go away? Ask yourself what important things am I learning here? What is causing my suffering—how I am thinking about this person and this situation–what am I telling myself. What could I tell myself about this situation that could change the experience and have it make sense to me? An example: Let’s say that you have a person in your life who is controlling and pushy–what would that help you with? It could help you practice setting boundaries and also learn to respond to their controlling behavior in a non-reactive way. It could also help you practice keeping your emotional state where you want it to be without allowing what is happening with that other person affect you.
Today–ask what am I learning from this challenging person or situation–how is it helping me?
