Book 6 - Red Ellipse
Physical awareness, positive but immature life force, combined with growth, expansion, adaptation, extension.In looking ahead to a resolution of your question or issue, consider the following.Attention to or away from your physical well-being may be the key to making a decision that will provide you the energy to expand or adapt, thereby answering your question or resolving your issue.Do not ignore severe or chronic pain, fatigue, lassitude or difficulty to physically relax - you are urged to take professional advice.Seek a number of people in your family, friends or professionals in your community who exemplify physical energy and physical health in balance with other aspects of their lives. Observe how they give time to self-care, in their thinking and lifestyle. With them, examine your own lifestyle as it is relevant to physical energy. Look for resources within your home and in your neighbourhood for more efficient or more enjoyable physical activities. Also consider the time and method you devote to physical relaxation. Are you over-dependent on stimulant or depressant substances. Have you forgotten the effectiveness of time in a warm bath; of meditation and good breathing and stress-relieving thoughts?You are urged also to attend to your own physical appearance and presentation, including your demeanour, grooming and dress. Seek feedback from one or more trusted people, who you know will be both honest and supportive in these areas.Apportion time to really experience the sense of touch. A massage may be of value to you right now.Your relationship with money and material things may be the key to making the right decision for you at present. You are urged to attend to this.Seek a number of people in your family, friends or professionals in your community who have achieved a serene balance between focus on money and focus on other aspects of life, whether they are people who know how to grow money or have made adaptive choices about the few things they do possess. Talk with them and learn the principles they live by that relate to money and to owning material things. Learn about their understanding of the consequences of different patterns of ownership, of income generation, of working, of investing, of spending, of lending and borrowing. Allow them to examine your patterns and to offer suggestions.Look also to the things you possess, your income and your assets. Consider even your own body and mind, and the value of these in a range of settings. Consider all that you have with gratitude, even if it be little indeed. Consider other material resources to which you have access, perhaps possessions of your family or public resources of your community; and be grateful for each one. Thirdly, it may be that understanding yourself as a sexual being and being self-respecting and confident with your own sexuality, is a key issue to developing your life or in finding an acceptable resolution to your specific question. This is a time to be honest about your needs, inclinations, fantasies, fears and the different parts or leanings within you that are in conflict. It is a time to address your sexual safety, trust in yourself and in others. It is a time to address issues of shame, of impulse control and also to consider the importance right now of sexual pleasure in your life. Is it missing in your life? Has it become the only joy in an otherwise barren existence?Therefore, give consideration to the place of sexuality in the balance of your life or in answering your question, and seek a number of people in your family, friends or professionals in your community who exemplify understanding of sexual health in all its complexities. Find how they give time to accepting and managing their sexuality, in their thinking and lifestyle. With them, examine your own lifestyle as it is relevant to issue of sexuality and your experience of sex.