Co-dependence. I received a couple of messages overnight asking me to talk about

codependence in a meditation video. Good morning, it's Lauren, rise and shine. It's Sunday

morning. Very bright sun here and it's a beautiful morning.

It seems that there are some sheep that have jumped over the fence, so that's all

interesting and Adrian's gone to return a truck back to the depot. I was thinking about the word codependence and how, if at all,

I could talk about it in a meditation. What is our aim here, our primary aim in talking about co-dependence?

What are we looking for?

Basically, we're looking for a level of peace, a level of satisfaction, a level of

perceived success in our life.

Bingo, let's close the fairy tale. We've arrived at a happy ending.

I've talked about the problem of social media. Social media takes a word or a phrase and

that's my evil dead moment and smashes it up.

And then somehow we, all of us, me included, we're starting to see these short messages

and short words on Instagram or whatever the social media is as a type of

answer.

There's nothing more motivating than a wonderful quote, and I love it too.

I love it.

Or a particular, a strong word, profound, incredible.

Then we need to look at the purpose of words and not being controlled by the word. So we are the

I, we choose the thought. The thought chooses the word, and that is a complex process

because our process of choice is affected by so many variables. It sounds so easy, doesn't it?

You choose. It's your choice. A choice is affected by how we feel about ourselves, the parameters of

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