Further Thoughts

I've been feeling great lately with the help of some alternate healing methods and am real excited about the future.
 
Sunday I attended a Wellness Weekend sponsored by a great group of local healers.  This group of a couple dozen gifted practitioners got together and decided to hold a workshop once a month to share their skills and spread wellness and good will.  Some of the stuff was a little "new agey" but I've got to say, I walked out of there feeling better than I have in memory.  At the workshop you were able to choose four different modalities from a list of 7 or 8.  Each session lasted about 45 minutes and best of all it was only $50 for everything!  I chose reiki, EFT, acupunture and E NPL (still not sure what that one is about).  In EFT (Emotional Freedom Training), the guy had me focus on a traumatic scene from my past that has been bothering me and he would calmly give me affirmations while guiding me thru the scene and how it made me feel.  He would say something like, "Even though this incident hurt me very badly, I still love myself wholly and unconditionally."  while tapping with his fingers on certain acupuncture meridian points.  I swear, that was the first good cry I've had since this all started.  I've felt so balanced and at peace since Sunday that I can't explain it with words.  I went back for another acupuncture session yesterday and it was wonderful as well.  Well, I think I'm rambling here (and probably sounding a little wacky) so I'll go on.

I was given a random challenge to help me think out of the box: Build something out of a hammer and a soldering iron.  Here's my hammer, that's all I need.  And my soldering iron.  All I need is my hammer and my soldering iron. .... And an idea, I need an idea to meet my challenge.  Hmmmm.  I could build something for my mother, but what?  Soon, I'll be blowing insulation into her attic and I will use a hammer so maybe that counts (sort of).  Trouble is, most things you use a hammer on are not things you use a soldering iron on.  I found something called a soldering iron hammer but that's only used for soldering rain gutters and my mom doesn't have any.  What could I solder into a gift?  How about some bangle bracelets?  I could use some half round 16 gauge wire and just solder it into a circle.  Ta da!!