Whatevers...

I feel most myself and contented when i'm either:

- happy, chatty, talk too much
- seemingly lost in my reverie, when in actual fact i'm not thinking, not contemplating, not judging...

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A wise Buddhist monk once told the story of a mother and her teenage daughter who came to seek advice from him. The teenager was suffering from anorexia and no amount of cajoling, threat, therapy or drugs seemed to help.

The monk decided to try regression hypnosis on the daughter. The Buddhists believe that your suffering in this life may stem from something unresolved or perhaps by some misdeed that you committed in a past life. The concept of karma is at the heart of Buddhism.

During the regression hypnosis the daughter told the story of how, once upon a time, she was the ugly younger sister of a family with two female siblings. One day the siblings fell in love with the same man.

The man chose to be with the older sister which led to the younger girl's utter heart break, and ultimately to taking her own life.

The mother, who's been listening this started crying. When she was asked why by the monk she said that there was something which she never told anyone...she was too ashamed to.

She then told of how she once had a younger sister, and one day they both fell in love with the same man. He is the husband she was with today, but she lost her younger sister when she took her own life.

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