Cellular Wisdom

Jolt of Joan – Podcast for Sept. 6, 2010 – “Difficult” Conversations

Joan King — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:20:45 +0000

Need to have a “DIFFICULT conversation” with a friend, significant other, co-worker, or direct report? Listen to Joan’s Podcast on this topic, it may give you a different perspective and result in a more desired outcome. Enjoy this week’s “Jolt of Joan” designed to inspire you to connect with the bigness part of yourself, nurture it and make your contribution to others. Download it and play it as often as you like. Listen every week – at the beginning of the week – for a NEW Jolt of Joan. This is my GIFT to you. Pass this along.

Joan King — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:15:07 +0000

Ah, one week after Chemo #2 and my energy is returning. It is as though I resurrect into the light after being in the dark place of utter fatigue for the week. I attended a Colorado Women of Influence Advisory Meeting early this morning in Loveland, CO. It was a delight to be with my colleagues once again – not since June have I had this honor. Here are some of us, Ann Clarke, the founder of Colorado Women of Influence , myself, Andrienne Zoble, founder of Broads on Business.com and Debbie Davis, Branch President / Commercial Lender at Guaranty Bank & Trust. See Ann on this month’s cover of BE Magazine of Colorado.

Dew In The Morning
(Resurrection) by Raymond A. Foss

Dew in the morning
Burst my slumber, stupor, coma
Caught me from numbness,
Unseeing eyes
Dulled senses

Forced sight, perception
Discernment,
Gasp,
wonderment
Out my door
Vivid, to be seen,
Felt, understood

a silence, a stillness,
not in the scene; but in me
woke me more
than the sun had stirring my sleep

7 am
My world awakes
There’s dew in the morning.

Rush of rich, deep color
Eyes drink in the snapshots, slides,
Recurring refrain –
Dew in the morning

Allowing me to see
All of nature
Alive then, as they had been all along
Whispering a secret
Through my new sight

A carpet of moss
softened
By the morning mist,
God’s breath
Trapped on the needles, hairs

Small, private, spider webs
Before my feet
Caught pearls of dew,
fine tapestry
Outlining their maker’s artistry.

Every tip of the serrated
Wild strawberry leaves is gilded
With a morning’s tea r.

New birch leaves
Are ever greener.
Their skin and veins
More animate

Crown of each green
Blueberry clutches,
Caresses,
Lovingly, gently
A single living dewdrop.

Panes of mica in the
Granite underfoot
Hold a special sheen.
Reflecting the warming light

My world is brighter,
Vivid,
And I am alive

When there is
Dew in the morning.

The “Jolt of Joan” Podcast

Joan King — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:02:33 +0000

Enjoy this week’s “Jolt of Joan” designed to inspire you to connect with the bigness part of yourself, nurture it and make your contribution to others.

Download it and play it as often as you like. Listen every week – at the beginning of the week – for a NEW Jolt of Joan. This is my GIFT to you.

6 days after Chemo #2 – “My Personal Call to Greatness!”

Joan King — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:03:57 +0000

A long nap has delayed the writing of the blog. Thanks Judith for a lovely walk in the canyon this morning and a revealing conversation.

Life unfolds in measured ways
revealing its secrets and wonders
along the way.

Were we to know the
magnificence and challenges
all at once,
we might not rise to meet
each with unmeasured
joy and strength.

Ah, the wisdom of the Universe
allowing us to see
only a bit of
the glory and the pain.

Thank You for the journey,
the love and the
companions who help
us see the wonder
often hidden in chaos
and the glory unfolded
in the power of
staying true!

5 days after Chemo #2 – “My Personal Call to Greatness!”

Joan King — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:37:13 +0000

Thanks Mary for a wonderful walk this morning and Annette for driving me to my follow up appointment with my oncologist in Fort Collins. Yes, I still have fatigue today but much better than Monday and Tuesday and NO PAIN! HOORAY!

Thinking today about the web of life that connects us all and the metaphor of Indra’s Net which stretches out infinitely in all directions. A multifaceted jewel sits at each vertex in the net, and reflects all of the other jewels. Indra’s net symbolizes a universe where infinitely repeated mutual relations exist between all members of the universe.

^{Imagine EACH of us affecting EVERY ONE of us!}

4 days after Chemo #2 – following “My Personal Call to Greatness!”

Joan King — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:15:55 +0000

Marvelous, no pain, only the fatigue.

A sound arises from deep within
erupting as loud expression
demanding attention,
“WHY, why this time out?”

Yes, I know, the deepening of the experience of life,
of connection with others, of compassion.
BUT, “WHY, why this time out?”

Will it enhance my creativity?
ripen meaningful communication?
allow me to do MORE in the world?
“WHY, why this time out?

The words occupy my inner being and
surround me in the outer world.
“WHY, why this time out?”

3 days after Chemo #2 – following “My Personal Call to Greatness!”

Joan King — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:35:02 +0000

Thanks, Judith, for a lovely walk this morning. It felt so good to swing my arms, move my legs, look up to the sky and breathe the fresh air. Ah, the joy of living and walking in the canyon.

Today is the third day after Chemo on Friday. In my first round of chemo this was the day of PAIN. Everything hurt. Thank goodness it lasted for only 1 day. In discussing my symptoms with the nurses, it appears my reaction is not to the chemotherapeutic agents but rather to the Neulastin, which helps generate white blood cells. I am prepared today should the pain begin. Thanks, Brett for the wonderful Reiki treatment outside under the trees yesterday. Also, Carmen thanks for the Reiki distance treatment today. Should the pain begin I will take medication.

This journey is not for the faint of heart, but it is a journey that I know will bring greater depth in my connections to others and in my compassion for the human condition.

“The strongest oak tree of the forest
is not the one that is protected from the storm
and hidden from the sun.
It’s the one that stands in the open
where it is compelled to struggle for its existence
against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”

Napoleon Hill

A GIFT for you – A Jolt of Joan – 2 min recordings weekly

Joan King — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:31:46 +0000

I have decided to GIFT everyone with my weekly audio recordings ~ 2 min ~ “A Jolt of Joan.” Knowing how difficult it is to live from the fullness of our being because of the many pulls on our time and energy, I want to make this contribution to help YOU stay focused on living from your true essence. I believe we are each here to make a contrbution to the world. My contribution is to help YOU evoke your greatness.

Click here to listen to this week’s “A Jolt of Joan.”

Day after Chemo #2 – following My Personal Call to Greatness!” 2 months, 2 weeks.

Joan King — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:29:21 +0000

We landed in Denver Wednesday night later than we expected because of a late flight from Ljubljana to Chicago – missing the Chicago to Denver flight. We delighted in the sight of the Colorado mountains.

The first thing I did on Thursday morning was cut off the rest of my hair that I had been dropping all over Slovenia and Italy. On the flight home I wrote the following:

My brush overflowed with hair
falling out, over and over again,
each time I brushed it.

When I awoke my pillow
was covered with hair.

Hair formed a cape
over my shoulders, neck and back.

Concrete, repeating evidence,
my life had changed.

How quickly perspectives can change.
Initially, somewhat anxious about losing my hair,
now, I wanted it gone,
this bother of a hair trail, everywhere.

Life lived fully
holds so many surprises and gifts.

I am OPEN to them all.

After Chemo yesterday I was feeling fine and ran a number of errands. I did not even mind standing in a long line at the post office waiting to mail books to Ashville for the upcoming coaching retreat of Success Unlimited Network™ Coaches. I anticipated the glorious connections with fabulous individuals devoted to transforming the world and of my talk about “Greatness!”

I know that “Greatness!” is a BIG word, sometimes difficult to understand. You have already experienced your greatness, even if you did not recognize it at the time. Think of an experience when you felt you were being TOTALLY YOU, expressing your true essence. How did that feel? REALLY HOW did that FEEL? When this happens to me I feel expansive, like my essence is smiling deep within my being. My commitment is to live from my true essence. Everything I AM and DO is to help evoke greatness

To help you touch your greatness each week, every week, I have decided to gift you, ALL OF YOU, “A Jolt of Joan” FREE. Click here and you will be taken to this weeks

Last day in Ljubljana – following “My Personal Call to Greatness!” 2 months, a week and 3 days

Joan King — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:39:19 +0000

Last night we had supper along the river. Here are Stu and I, with my wig on.

This is the river later in the evening.

This is our last day here. Tomorrow morning we board the plane for the return trip to the US. My second Chemo treatment is on Friday August 27th.

While on our travels in Verona, Italy I saw his store and had Stu take the picture for our friend and neighbor Gloriana. This is for you, Gloria.

See you all, soon!