{"id":1252,"date":"2024-03-20T13:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2024-11-04T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:06:31","slug":"flip-a-stone-to-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Flip a Stone to Decide–All Ends in Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pray: \u00a0All Ends in Beauty. \u00a0Everything Ends in Beauty…….. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ever have a problem making decisions? We all have our techniques. I flip a stone.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a little flat round stone whom I consult. It’s about the size of a fifty cent piece and I made a black dot on one side, although I can tell the two sides apart. I keep the stone in a blue leather pouch in a top drawer. \u00a0Sometimes when I flip the stone I say to the universe: “I will abide” to the decision of the stone. Other times, I reserve the right to do the opposite. \u00a0But I like to ask the stone what it has to say.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I don’t like the answer, \u00a0or want the answer reinforced, sometimes I say “Two out of three.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Very often I have an instant reaction to what the stone suggests. \u00a0This reaction enables me to know what I am really wanting or not wanting to do. \u00a0Sometimes when I am trying to decide, I come to the conclusion that either way will work, so why fret? \u00a0And the stone decides.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s easier to use the stone’s advice with small decisions, of course. \u00a0But sometimes these seem to me to be the thorniest. \u00a0Like what to wear somewhere or what to pack in a suitcase. \u00a0I find packing to be a chore. \u00a0Once I used the stone to handle the entire wardrobe question for a trip and it turned out remarkably \u00a0well.<\/span><\/p>\n

My husband inadvertently trained me in this technique. \u00a0He is as casual as they come. \u00a0One of his fundamental philosophies is “It doesn’t matter.” \u00a0This took a long time getting used to. Of course things matter! \u00a0It used to really BOTHER me when he made this assertion. \u00a0But there came a time that I realized that the worst thing that could happen with a “wrong” answer was that I would learn a lesson of some sort. \u00a0And a lesson can–more often than not–be a thing of beauty. Indeed, in the cosmic scheme, the Taoist way of seeing things, there are no “wrong” answers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why not a coin? Stones are the oldest among us. \u00a0They are not manmade and have an energy of “The Oldest Among Us.” Metal has an electromagnetism entirely different from a stone and \u00a0likely has been in many other hands. \u00a0I’ve had my stone now for years and its likely that no other human hands have ever touched it. \u00a0It has MY energy on it. \u00a0It’s a medicine stone, a Nuwati stone<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, intuition and reason also inform me when its time to make a decision. But the stone is my little friend that helps me dialog with myself and the universe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth\/Du’Tsu\/Spring Frog<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pray: \u00a0All Ends in Beauty. \u00a0Everything Ends in Beauty…….. Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha Ever have a problem making decisions? We all have our techniques. I flip a stone. I have a little flat round stone whom I consult. It’s about the size of a fifty cent piece and I made a black dot on one side, although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[57,8,13,12,42,4],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-wellness-and-spirituality","tag-dutsu","tag-grandmother-parisha","tag-medicine","tag-nuwati","tag-parisha","tag-wellnessandspiritualitynet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}