Bad Friends? Family members driving you crazy? Here's Help:

It's okay to feel ambivalence about something and not have a final answer about how you think/feel about an issue/person/place/experience, etc.

I've noticed that mental rigidity often goes hand in hand with brittleness when it comes to self-care and mental health.

If you have been in a situation that craves drama, you probably are entrained to respond. You didn't "attract" that (For my Law Of Attraction peeps) , it's what's *familiar* to you because you probably grew up in a family of origin where three alarm fires and Chicken Little "The Sky Is Falling" responses to everything were the norm.

Here's a revelation:

You don't have to respond to drama.

You can remove yourself from a situation and you don't have to fix it.

Fixing other people's problems who never seem to have a solution to their pain/anxiety/whatever may mean one of two things:

You and they are Codependent, and you are enabling their behavior.

Who are you if you aren't the Savior?

Remove yourself from the behavior and see what happens when you aren't there to save them.

Do they get better? Worse? Stay the same?

That will tell you what you need to know about whether or not that person is needed in your life and/or a healthy presence for you.

You are more than the sum of your parts.

 Stop encouraging crazy behavior. 

You can ween yourself off of drama queens whose lives are always in chaos and never get better.

Dysfunctional parents teach their children how to be crazy.

Don't encourage it. 

Remove yourself from the situation and take the time necessary to observe, process, and heal what is going on inside you first.

Then remove people who can't, don't, or won't stop their craving for dysfunctional situations and that constantly require you to put out their never-ending three alarm fires.

#SelfCareIsntSelfish #Dysfunction #DysfunctionalFamiliesOfOrigin #ChickenLittle #Drama #BadFriendsAreMirrorsOfOurFamilies #HowWeCope #Origins #FocusOnYourself

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Can't sleep. (Re: Sochi Olympics)

As I type this, it's around 5 am Eastern US time. By the time this post is published, the official start to the Olympics will already be happening in about 5 1/2 hours.

As this is about to be the starting day today, I am sorry to say I am still not feeling very good about the first week of the Winter Olympics in Russia (re: http://anyaisachannel.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-little-worried-about-sochi.html)  Cannot shake this feeling. In spite of the news bluster about security concerns at the event, security is very good, but not THAT good.

 I feel like individual participants and their coaches and/or some dignitaries have hired armed guards independently just in case, and of course the news is saying terror threats have ratcheted up, but there is some kind of skirmish around three or four people, possibly Americans caught up in the middle of this as victims, people walking on the grounds outside the Olympic village or arena where the public can walk outside of the arena games regarding a bomb going off, a bomb threat or explosives worn/ unfortunately are near a suicide bomber if a bomb goes off.

This is either an attempt or actual attack that if it occurs, none of the athletes are harmed, but one or two western civilians might be if this happens, possibly also one of the coaches or someone connected to coaching somehow (I pray it doesn't happen but I just don't have a good feeling about this). Possibly three people getting injured/killed including or in addition to the bomber if there is one wearing a vest/explosives. Two of the injured/dead could be US citizens or possibly Canadian- if not, they are Western.

 The explosives look like a package of hot dogs, 6 or 7 links packed neatly side by side, either worn on a belt somehow or vertically held in a lock box or tight metal box of some kind that prevents exposure to heat of some kind- it's like a cold storage thing to keep it from igniting until such time as the bomber needs to. Very cylindrical and rounded and each is about 5 or 6 inches in length, they are all neatly stuck next to each other. They look like tubes and are like a grey green/olive color, the texture is soft like putty, but smooth. Highly explosive/volatile material, am getting even body heat could set one off. Maybe even contact with air could set it off. I don't know what kinds of explosives these are.

Within the first week of the games it goes off or the plot is thwarted but someone or a couple of people, possibly on site security guards, find(s) the bombs/equipment/person wearing the vest bomb, etc. on the grounds or literally just outside the grounds where the games take place and they alert the bomb squad/police. On or near the main gates to get into the Olympic park is where I am getting either this thwarted attempt or actual bomb going off happens.

At the entry gates with tons of people streaming through at the beginning of the day, either morning when some event's just about to begin, or late afternoon/sunset when some event has just ended and people are leaving- I'm more prone to think it's morning.

Feeling like this could happen easily in the next 24-36 to 48 or so hours of me typing this even. If there is something, it will be timed for the public entering and exiting times- or, if it's a suicide bomb, it could be the bomber walks a bit more inward/inside the Olympic park area and either attempts to set off or actually does set off explosives/bombs in an area where lots of people are strolling right outside the main arena- a red brick or dark cobblestone curvy/gently winding walking path on the way to the arena/near it.

 If it's a suicide bomber, it could be a caucasian woman with pale skin of thin to average build, chestnut brown or possibly reddish shoulder length straight or slightly wavy thin hair (very wavy/curly if they have reddish hair) and average height (5'4"-5'6") or a thin, smaller man with pale skin and brown hair, or a thin teenage boy with medium or darker brown short hair that is shorter on the sides and fuller on top if it is an actual suicide bomber/the person(s) who place the bomb.

I am getting this is something to do with Chechnya for some reason.
(The origins of the bombings/people doing the bombings.)

As with every dark prediction, I really hope this doesn't happen/is thwarted. Prayers….

Blessings,

Anya

CONFIRMATION OF PREDICTION UPDATE 18 FEBRUARY 2014 

RE: ATTEMPTED HIJACKING AND CLAIMS OF BOMB ON BOARD PLANE, 

HIJACKER DEMANDS PLANE BE TAKEN TO SOCHI ON 

7 FEBRUARY 2014 10:20 AM ET:

So almost  exactly 30 hours to the minute after I posted this original post there was a thwarted bomb threat by a suspected terrorist on a commercial flight that landed safely in Turkey: 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/07/world/europe/turkey-flight-bomb-threat/

The thwarted hijacker claimed there was a bomb on board and wanted the plane taken to Sochi. Not exactly "right outside" the gates of the stadium, but then again, I am reading now in the news after the fact that the terror threat for the Olympics wasn't just high, but "extremely" high, and of course there could have been thwarted or prolonged or delayed plans I was picking up on as well that either didn't bear fruit or changed paths. Such is the prediction game/business. I would like to say "I still consider this a hit", but would that be in poor taste considering the context? With a shudder, I must say that I am glad we got through the first week without anything happening but as I write this, the Olympics are still in full swing. 

Praying all is well and everyone gets back home safe and sound.