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Ten years since we started the bead movement and its been honestly a life changing experience. It has built a frame work for what I think. Even with the beads its amazing how quickly I can live as if I have forever and so the basic thought of \u2018spending\u2019 a bead each day is necessary for me to try to keep me present and focused on the finite-ness of all my days here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We decided to celebrate 10 years by revisiting the original intentions and thinking if our views on those words\/concepts\/ideals had changed any. So we are starting with the word honest. It is a v complex word as it turns out.Honest means to tell the truth, but the truth isn\u2019t always clear or sometimes we can\u2019t handle the whole truth all at once.  As I have thought about it over the last few weeks it seems mercurial almost as there are so many aspects-honest to myself, and to everyone else. And what might be true it seems for me today might not be true for myself tomorrow-so what is honesty. Perhaps in the moment what is accurate and factually correct but sometimes we are not honest within ourselves. As a matter of protection.. Sometimes we have a deeper sense of knowing which might be more honest to think of, but what one might not be ready to believe. I know, as a survivor of sexual assault I thought I was being honest with myself about the assault until I really started to look into it after nearly 20 years of having been frozen effectively from the truth of the situation. I had seen the event in the only way I was able to see it for many years, but it wasn\u2019t honestly what had happened. I had spent all these years taking a basic understanding of what had happened as true, but it wasn\u2019t really the truth. I couldn\u2019t have handled it though until all those years later. So perhaps does that mean honesty is on a sliding scale of what you can handle in the moment? Sometimes one can use a white lie to be what we think is kinder to the other person. With dread this summer a dear friend asked me how honest I wanted her to be about a situation. I always think I want absolute honesty-having been with an alcoholic bf for ages which entailed being lied to I have an abhorrence of dishonesty and always feel I want the truth straight, and that I will handle whatever it is, but just be straight with me. But perhaps I can\u2019t always handle things and am not honest with myself at every single juncture. That makes me think of the inner workings of my own self as something like a labyrinth – which is maybe what it is like in there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway as Johanna and I set off again on our quest for deeper understanding and gratitude for this one wild and precious life we are starting with an honest look at honesty. Here goes. X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ten years since we started the bead movement and its been honestly a life changing experience. It has built a frame work for what I think. Even with the beads its amazing how quickly I can live as if I have forever and so the basic thought of \u2018spending\u2019 a bead each day is necessary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mhairis-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3_21_4l-1.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102550,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102548\/revisions\/102550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}