Being: A Process

By Suna Senman-Lane

"Being" is a collection of thoughts provoking awakening within the soul. The words are the vehicle of the journey you embark on with the author into the deeper layers of your personal being - human being. You can read as deeply as you like and you can revisit the process over and over again.

This is a great book to read in the morning to meet the day and to reread in the evening to close the day. Doing so will take you on a journey of expanding purposeful living. "Being" is an ideal accompaniment to scripture bringing an awareness of dimensions to the truth experienced in our lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 4, 2009
• ISBN: 9781467866019

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© 2009 Suna Senman-Lane. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 3/2/2009

ISBN: 978-1-4389-3870-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-6601-9 (ebk)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008911276

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Contents

I Am

Accept

Others

The Balance Of Doing And Being

Letting Go - Let It be

Create The World

Find The Right people

Breathing

Listening

Seeing

Being

Being Masculine And feminine

On Humanity

On Young And Old

My Story

Being

A process

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Being

I received

My spirit

From my Father

I

Was fire

It

Was tempered

By my Mother

I

Grew higher

Introduction

Initially, I wrote this book to myself. Yet, while I wrote it I thought of you. I believe that the world is a collection of individuals and the individual is a microcosm of the world. The importance of the individual is equal to the importance of the whole world. Each individual creates history that affects other people. So while each person’s experience is unique, it is connected to the experience of others. Each individual is very important to the world. Each individual makes choices every day that make the world a better place or more confusing place. In growth each individual experiments and gets desired or unwanted results. Taking responsibility for the results and rectifying the unwanted creates balance and beauty again.

The world is not just the collective quantity of individuals; it is also the quality of one individual in it. Observe the ocean as if it were a giant aquarium. A drop of one chemical affects the entire collective of drops. When I add water from my faucet to my aquarium I place a drop of chlorine neutralizing element into the bucket of tap water. That one drop turns the entire bucket of harmful water into safe, life-sustaining material. The idea that one drop of my thought, speech and action is neutralizing a harmful element in society and can sustain life is a concept that aligns with the philosophy that the individual is the world.

I am not happy with the reality of the world as it is today. I am responsible for failing to create the reality that I hoped for. I need to evaluate the state of my being in the doing.

I share this book as an invitation for you to join me in adding healing elements into the world through being a life giving force. You have received this book as a gift. Keep it, read it, display it. Maintain the tradition of gifting a copy to those people of your heart’s desire. Obey your heart in the tradition of this book: Receive gifts and give gifts. New copies of this book can be attained through www.authorhouse.com/bookstore Watch for new gifts to arrive for you. The next book Peace is coming soon.

Peace,

Suna

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I

Am

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I am…

All I knew I could be

All others thought of me

Then more

Inseparable from

All the other I beings

All the other thoughts

All the other experiences

.

.

.

Until

I climbed the ladder

Laying against the wall

And sat upon the slate roof

I looked at all

All looked so small

I could see all together

When I was out of it all

All just looks full of all

Stuck in their stationary spots

Armored in brick, stone and frame

Vulnerable to be replaced by other

Brick, stone and frame

A whisper

Touched my cheekbones

Saying, Look up

And gently lifting those bones

Upward

My eyes forced to obey

Captured the hidden life

In the light blue, white wisps and endlessness

Now

I am…

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I Am

Before my verbal or conscious memory began, my experience began. Before even my conception, my experience began with the experience of my parents. The impetus for my conception - all the thoughts, feelings, actions and the emotions related to the forming of me, surround and embraced me into my being. I was brought into the world as a product of my parent’s hopes, fears, words and actions that were influenced by other people’s hopes, fears, words and actions.

The following is a true story that illustrates preconception beginnings. I changed names and small details to protect the identity of the actual people who shared their story with me.

Sally met Dave at a dance. Sally was a good student at her teachers college. She had hoped all her life to go to a prestigious university to pursue her excelled abilities in writing, but she didn’t do well on her entrance exams the first try and fell into a depression. Eventually she decided to go to the teacher’s college that was easy for her instead of pursuing her dream of working toward a career in playwriting.  Dave on the other hand was working a minimum wage job in order to save up to go to medical school. Dave came from an impoverished single parent home where he was raised with the responsibility of being the man of the house since a child. Dave not only had to pay for his own education, but he had to support his mother and sisters back home. Sally enamored by Dave put her talented mind to use to find Dave the scholarships and funding needed to get him to medical school. Dave bonded to the love and caring of Sally and knew that his life was from then on devoted to her. Sally brought Dave home to meet her parents. Sally’s father saw characteristics in Dave that concerned him and voiced them to his daughter. Sally being star struck in love with Dave shoved her father’s words into the back of her mind.

Sally and Dave became more intimate and discovered that they had conceived a child. Being young college students they felt overwhelmed by the thought of being parents. They even began to question if they wanted to be bonded to each other for the rest of their lives. They decided to erase the board as if they never met.  Sally terminated the pregnancy. Dave transferred schools and life went on. Yet the etchings of their relationship remained. After 2 years fate brought them back together. Upon this second meeting they quickly decided to get married and join the ranks of other couples to create a family. Sally and Dave’s children are conceived with many thoughts, feelings, words and emotions that the children never heard about. The children can’t question or discuss their experience because no words were given to them about their experience. Yet, in the nonverbal parts of their being, their parent’s experiences exist, coming out in the subtle actions and reactions of daily life.  Sally and Dave’s children experience depression and low self esteem carrying into their adult lives. Psychotherapy fails to reveal the underlying cause of depression. After Dave passes away, Sally reveals the story to her adult children. The children, now able to identify a real loss (the absence of a sibling), can begin to express the emotions within the