3 June 2021
Bliss Context
A visit to the dentist gives me a pleasant surprise and instead of being a dental day blah it was dental day bliss.
Now that I finished with the invisible aligners and am using retainers at night, I need another dental visit to fill the food pocket on one of my back teeth.
For some reason, I got my days mixed up and whether I was seeing the hygienist or the dentist. It turns out it was the dentist, and it was a short visit to get a minor filling (without a needle) and a bottle of brushing solution. If it weren’t for the paperwork, I would have been in the surgery for a total of 20 minutes. Yes. It was that fast! Pure Dental Visit Bliss!
A quick word about the brushing solution and the dentist: when I lived in Sydney, a marketing course spoke of a dentist who greeted his patients dressed in a jacket and tie instead of the lab coat or dental uniform. The clothing choice identified that patients were at ease with the familiar yet professional clothing, which wasn’t a lab coat. The dentist was considered radical and ground-breaking with his thinking.
Years later, when I moved to Brisbane and sought a holistic dentist, having forgotten about the marketing course, the dentist in Queensland was the aforementioned radical. While his surgery is expensive, it is also progressive, and there’s a genuine caring vibe about the place. It took me a while to come to grips with you can have money and be caring (Day 151).
Ever the advanced, he’s developed a Brushing Solution which is a hydrogen peroxide-based mouthwash. In the early days, it tasted disgusting. Now it’s still yuk but not as bad.
If you want to check out the solution for yourself, go to this Brushing Solution link.
Suburb Bliss
Every time I go to the suburb my dentist is in, I want to be a better person for my health. The place connects to me; the supermarket, although like every other supermarket, simply draws me to the fruit and vegetable section and the bottled water or kombucha. Don’t worry; as soon as I get home, things settle back to normal very quickly.
Not only does the suburb influence me to want to eat better, but I also want to meditate. Because the dentist visit was so quick, it allowed me to get the picnic blanket out and sit on the sand by the ocean and meditate for 10 minutes and consume the strawberries 🍓. Being able to have this opportunity on a beautiful sunny day is bliss.
Today's Cards
The Cards - Analysis
Carryover Cards
One card carried over from yesterday; Adventure moved from the Recent Past to the Goal position.
Cross Bliss
Turning In is in the Now influenced by Letting Go. Oh well, I’ve turned in today with my meditation and the capacity for it was influenced by letting go of the idea that I need to head back to the office immediately. The additional 40 minutes – I’d allowed an hour in the dentist surgery – was enough time to stop and smell the roses salt air.
In the past, I’ve hoped for the opportunity to have a mini-Adventure. The very wishing for Adventure back then would have created today’s Goal.
Conditioning is doing the right thing and going back to work without reading the day. At some point in the Distant Past, I would have begun breaking away from that Conditioning.
The Politics of wearing two faces to show one to the world and feeling the other yourself is in the Recent Past. This kind of politicking usually happens to me when I visit the dentist. In the past, it’s been around the question of have you been flossing? To which the response was, “of course, mostly”.
Abundance is in the Future Energy position. While it’s tempting to view Abundance in simply a financial light, the card in Osho’s Tarot is so much more. By being generous and kind to myself, it enabled me to be more open with others.
Base
As I mentioned under the Suburb Bliss, when I travel to this location, caring for myself increases. Knowing I’m Traveling to the area lifts my Feelings (the Traveling card’s position).
Others’ Views of me is Intensity, which is about going full speed in your direction. This perspective is certainly in line with what the dentist thinks of me. (Not necessarily in a good way).
Hopes & Fears has the card of Stress. I fear going to the dentist because I’m worried the Stress I’m feeling will create more problems than typically exist. For instance, knowing I’m going to the dentist, I suddenly feel every ache in my mouth which I’ll swear wasn’t there before I realised it was dentist time. I hope to avoid this Stress next time.
Finally, Moment to Moment is in the Outcome spot. The outcome of today’s visit to the dentist was the moment I realised half an hour of my day was mine, and I seized it while the sun did shine.
References
- Osho, Osho Zen Tarot – The Transcendental Game of Zen, St Martin’s Press, ISBN 0-312-11733-7
