Comments on: Lessons From my Cat http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/ a tongue-in-cheek quest for understanding... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:14:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jason http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1741 Jason Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:10:45 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1741 Liara... you don't have to "not be" your body in order to be the observer. It's just that it's not ALL of who you are, merely a part. And not necessarily even a permanent part... but a part for now, at least. Liara… you don’t have to “not be” your body in order to be the observer. It’s just that it’s not ALL of who you are, merely a part. And not necessarily even a permanent part… but a part for now, at least.

]]> By: Jenny Morman http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1659 Jenny Morman Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:34:01 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1659 My cat just watches from a distance - she's curious yet cautious. :) My cat just watches from a distance - she’s curious yet cautious. :)

]]> By: Dan http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1652 Dan Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:37:26 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1652 Cats are so Zen, aren't they. They don't think ... they just do. I wish I was more like that. Thinking almost always gets me in trouble. :) Happy Thanksgiving Erin and Jenny! Cats are so Zen, aren’t they. They don’t think … they just do. I wish I was more like that. Thinking almost always gets me in trouble. :)

Happy Thanksgiving Erin and Jenny!

]]> By: Liara Covert http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1596 Liara Covert Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:50:24 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1596 Animals offer us many opportunities to learn from their wisdom and life experience. The question is, how many people truly pay much attention?Some people ask whether George Orwell's, "Animal Farm" is full of truth. Jason makes key points that fear can be a passive or active reaction. You could choose to control fear or let it control you. I would encourage you to step back even further. Consider you're actually an observer of projected reactions. That's right. You observe emotions that are generated and expressed. Perhaps you await what happens. Will the mind react as your soul has predicted? Do you sense you exist just to learn and collect info? You might make an analogy with the tv show "Myth Busters." Animals offer us many opportunities to learn from their wisdom and life experience. The question is, how many people truly pay much attention?Some people ask whether George Orwell’s, “Animal Farm” is full of truth.

Jason makes key points that fear can be a passive or active reaction. You could choose to control fear or let it control you. I would encourage you to step back even further. Consider you’re actually an observer of projected reactions. That’s right. You observe emotions that are generated and expressed. Perhaps you await what happens. Will the mind react as your soul has predicted? Do you sense you exist just to learn and collect info?

You might make an analogy with the tv show “Myth Busters.”

]]> By: Liara Covert http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1595 Liara Covert Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:37:55 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1595 This post reminds us that animals are often giving us opportunities to learn from their experience and wisdom. We just have to open our senses. Jason makes key points about how fear can be a passive or active reaction. I would encourage you to step back even further. Consider for at least a few moments that the real you is only observing reactions of your body. What if you aren't these reactions at all. What if you are really the observer taking it all in and deciding what to do with all you take in? This post reminds us that animals are often giving us opportunities to learn from their experience and wisdom. We just have to open our senses.

Jason makes key points about how fear can be a passive or active reaction. I would encourage you to step back even further. Consider for at least a few moments that the real you is only observing reactions of your body. What if you aren’t these reactions at all. What if you are really the observer taking it all in and deciding what to do with all you take in?

]]> By: Mark http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1538 Mark Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:40:14 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1538 Teddy is smarter than my kitten. She keeps trying to get her paws into the printer. Teddy is smarter than my kitten. She keeps trying to get her paws into the printer.

]]> By: Jason http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1534 Jason Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:48:08 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1534 Actually, your first and third responses are both prompted by fear. One is simply the passive reaction to fear, and the other the active response. Actually, your first and third responses are both prompted by fear. One is simply the passive reaction to fear, and the other the active response.

]]> By: John http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1524 John Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:22:12 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/11/lessons-from-my-cat/#comment-1524 Well put. Also good to to see you're back! I totally agree that letting the "flight or fight" reaction rule us isn't the way to go, generally. Instead, cultivating curiosity and making the decision to learn as much about the new (whatever) as possible yields not only new knowledge, but can make you friends, discover medicines, and just in general make life more fun :) Well put. Also good to to see you’re back!

I totally agree that letting the “flight or fight” reaction rule us isn’t the way to go, generally. Instead, cultivating curiosity and making the decision to learn as much about the new (whatever) as possible yields not only new knowledge, but can make you friends, discover medicines, and just in general make life more fun :)

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