Sense of belonging --- the final touch : FOCUS

What is a sense of belonging and why is it important? Frankly there is a simple answer :


We are part of everything and if we brake the golden thread we get lost. That's why so many of us are looking for something...an answer, more capita, love, affection, wisdom, technology, fame,...etc. We do not live on a lonely island and yet ever so often we feel like as if Friday's footstep is nowhwere around. It is in our nature that we want to share and spend time with others. If that is not the case because we have been moved and find it difficult to find new friends for example, there is a certain gap. Actually we do become an island ourselves instead of being part of the continent where everbody else seems to be. Sometimes even a family cannot support the needs of a single person and he/she has to go and find his or her back-up network. In a century of transition, globalisation and constant travel and change,...some want to cling to their traditions/religions in an especially strong way,... Others leave those traditions in an attempt to make a better life. From history, that has maybe shown too many negative consequences; we want to find a new way of living,...new principles and new rules. [ MIND: having no rules, customs or habits is also a principle...] Yet we find at the end of the road that not many people are really strong enough to go their 'self invented' way. It is like inventing the wheel anew but then with wood instead of rubber and finding out that it does not really run so smoothly after all. So even when we turn to cooking we are lost...because we do not know which rules are ok and what is good for our body...: In utter desperation some are conditioned to go for the best marketed new cook book that reaches the shelves. But what is our own taste, our own body's needs? I believe we have to dig deeper then shelves are high. We need to investigate ourselves to find an answer and realise that we have roots from our past,....in some cases - a very far away past. These roots are important to keep us stable as a rock so that we do not fall in an ever more complex world with less and less focus. And focus is the answer: It should be our daily prayer,....center of the center in me

. Where is it ? How do we get there ? Then and only then we get in touch with our inner self and slowly with our soul. We need touch the soul so that we are a consciously living being with a sense of belonging that is inside of ourselves: The final touch. Like that we can be free and fully grounded in whatever circumstances and wherever we are, because we are focused. Touch thy soul!