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I was having a discussion about life and particularly, the way life is now playing out with a long time friend. She said to me, what if our soul wants us to die now. The thought took me so by surprise that I was speechless! She asked me if I was okay. I said that I was, but that the idea of our soul wanting us to die, ultimately so that we can move on to other things, simply got my mind churning away on new ideas.
I remembered the poem, “Invictus”, and I wondered whether indeed we were the captains of our own souls. My thought is that once we reach a high level of vibration, then our earthly soul merges with our higher self, and it doesn’t really matter.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
It is worth reading this poem several times. There are some big ideas in it that are good for focusing your meditation.
I had an interesting experience where a client asked me - “What does it mean to walk in the light?” I wasn’t sure how to answer the question because walking in the light is an individual experience. As always, my guides helped me out by referring me to a picture of my husband walking in the light.
I took this amazing picture of my husband when we were in Sedona quite a few years ago. We are across the saddle from Kachina Woman. He had climbed up an out cropping of rocks to get some better pictures. When I looked back at him, he seemed to be covered in an explosion of light.
You can see the rays of light come around the top of the rock and make an arc, as though a cone of light has been set over him. There is a very bright orb in the foreground, with green reflection off of it. If you look at the picture closely, you can see amazing hues of purple and blue against the rock.
I asked him if he could feel any energy up there. He said that it was simply peaceful. (For camera enthusiasts, I simply used my cell phone camera.). I think that that is the best explanation of walking in the light… it is the ability to be absolutely peaceful and calm in everything that you do.
Have you found that sometimes, the same thought plays over and over in your head? Have you experienced the reliving of a memory that was painful and thought for the one thousandth time, I’d like to make that person pay? Do you have a story that runs continuously in your mind and that you tell your friends over and over? Welcome to the world of sticky thoughts, that is, thoughts that are glued to your mind.
The problem with these thoughts is that they create barriers to you doing a lot of other things with your brain power and with your life. These thoughts take up your time and energy, drag you down, and create inertia. In some, it creates a great tiredness that prevents them from doing anything to improve their life, other than to say, “Someday!”.
If your thoughts are super glued and you cannot seem to shrug them off, then remember this – we are not thoughts! Thoughts are not true! To achieve peace and relief from anxiety and fear, we must learn to still our thoughts. Osho has a great technique to still your thoughts – a releasing of the super glue.
Meditation – Touch Your Eyes – by OSHO
Use both your palms, put them on your eyes, and allow the palms to touch the eyeballs ― but just like a feather, with no pressure. If you press you miss the point, you miss the whole technique. Don’t press; just touch, like a feather. You will have to adjust, because in the beginning you will be pressing. Put less and less pressure until you are just touching with no pressure at all ― just your palms touch the eyeballs.
Why? Because a needle can do something which a sword cannot do. If you press, the quality has changed ― you are aggressive. And the energy that is flowing through the eyes is very subtle: a small pressure and it starts fighting and a resistance is created. If you press, then the energy that is flowing through the eyes will start a resistance, a fight; a struggle will ensue. So don’t press; even a slight pressure is enough for the eye-energy to judge. It is very subtle, it is very delicate. Don’t press ― like a feather; just your palm is touching, as if not touching. Touching as if not touching, no pressure; just a touch, a slight feeling that the palm is touching the eyeball, that’s all.
What will happen? When you simply touch without any pressure, the energy starts moving within. If you press, it starts fighting with the hand, with the palm, and moves out. Just a touch and the energy starts moving within. The door is closed; simply the door is closed and the energy falls back. The moment energy falls back, you will feel a lightness coming all over your face, your head. This energy moving back makes you light. Even if you are not entering deep meditation, this will help you physically. Any time in the day, relax on a chair ― or if you don’t have any chair, when just sitting in a train ― close your eyes, feel a relaxed being in the whole of your body, and then put both your palms on your eyes. But don't press ― that’s the very significant thing. Just touch like a feather.
When you touch and don’t press, your thoughts will stop immediately. In a relaxed mind thoughts cannot move; they get frozen. They need frenzy and fever, they need tension to move. They live through tension. When the eyes are silent, relaxed, and the energy is moving backwards, thoughts will stop. You will feel a certain quality of euphoria, and that will deepen daily.
Osho: Excerpted from The Book of Secrets
May you release the glue that holds your thoughts in place and may you move to another level of being!
Over the years, a favourite place for us to go is to a place called Takkakaw Falls. The setting for these magnificent Falls is in Yoho National Park. The falls are only accessible between June and October. The road to the falls can be daunting. The place radiates energy and cleansing and healing. The water is icy cold, always.
Some details: Height: 1248 feet Width: 100 feet The Daly Glacier which feeds Takkakaw Falls is 3152 m (10,345 ft).
The pictures below were taken by S. Roger Joyeux and all copyrights remain with him, and these pictures are used with his permission.
The power of the Falls is that it pulls down light frequencies and disburses them into frequencies that may be used by humans. This is part of the awe that one feels at the foot of the falls. You can take a hiking trail that leads you to the bottom of the falls and there you can be splashed with the spray and the extremely cold water.
The power of the Falls makes you feel humble and pushes ego to the side. Some people have said that it is like sitting at the feet of God and feeling his strength. For me, it was feeling the power of the Earth and the Universe combined into one message. That message is to recognize our own power, and to act for the greater good.
The falls calls to our true, high light, pure love selves. Indigenous people have gone to the Falls on vision quests. Couples have made their vows at the Falls. The peace that exists even with the roaring of the water in the falls and in the river, makes the place feel unearthly.
We have like to take pictures and do some ceremony at the Falls. We sit on the rocks just below the falls and meditate. Each visit is intense and satisfying!
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...
not going all the way and not starting.
Buddha
This is a Zen story about the power of calmness.
A master of the tea ceremony in old Japan once accidentally slighted a soldier. He quickly apologized, but the rather impetuous soldier demanded that the matter be settled in a sword duel. The tea master, who had no experience with swords, asked the advice of a fellow Zen master who did possess such skill. As he was served by his friend, the Zen swordsman could not help but notice how the tea master performed his art with perfect concentration and tranquility. "Tomorrow," the Zen swordsman said, "when you duel the soldier, hold your weapon above your head, as if ready to strike, and face him with the same concentration and tranquility with which you perform the tea ceremony." The next day, at the appointed time and place for the duel, the tea master followed this advice. The soldier, readying himself to strike, stared for a long time into the fully attentive but calm face of the tea master. Finally, the soldier lowered his sword, apologized for his arrogance, and left without a blow being struck.
After you read this story, gage your reaction to it. Does your mind tell you that this is impossible? Why do you think that? Does your anger flare up and get you into trouble? Have you ever experienced the power of tranquility? What is the gift in this story? Why did the soldier back down?
This picture is from a series of wild life pictures someone sent me in an email. Origin not known.
A while ago, one of my clients phoned me because they had an unusual experience driving into work in the morning, down Memorial Drive. He said that a big white owl flew across his windshield twice. He was awestruck. However, when he excitedly looked around at other drivers, no one else appeared to see it. He wanted to know what the message was. The following message came to me in a meditation. I shared it with him, and with his permission, with you.
White Owl’s Message
“This is the time to practice wisdom. One of the greatest gifts of wisdom is patience. The large Earth changes are upon us, and, because they happen slowly, humans do not see the degree of change that is happening. We animals notice that the Sun and the Moon do not seem to always be in the place that it has been in seasons gone by. We notice that there is more water in some places and much dryness in others. It changes our food supply and we too must change – move to new hunting grounds and find new prey. We notice that some of our kind do not seem to be as plentiful. We that survive will need to continue the species. We see changes in our abilities with each new change. We are not ones to die off; we are survivors.
We find it easy to move. We have no home or possessions to carry with us. We simply set our destination, and fly to that place. We do have favourite places that we like to be, although it does not matter much to us where we sleep. Humans are weighted down by so many things. Perhaps that is why humans cannot fly. Even your clothes seem heavy.
I, Owl, say to you that now is a good time to look at lightening your load and finding ways to make your journey easier. “
One of the last times we drove up into the mountains this summer, we saw Mountain Goats roaming in the lower pastures along the mountain range. The road that we use closes October 15. In the past, the mountain goats have looked relaxed and pay little attention to what is around them. This time, however, the mountain goats were on high alert and seemed anxious. Even the youngest goats were not capering like they normally do. The following came to me in a meditation.
Mountain Goat Beings
We, the Mountain Goat beings are so happy that we live on the mountains. We look at the destruction of the waters and oceans (the Gulf of Mexico, the tar sands, and the pollution of the rivers) and say, “Animals have never done this much damage to anything!” Man, so far, has left the mountains alone. The mountains are the wisdom keepers of the Earth. All information passes from one side of the globe to the other through the vibrations carried through the Earth, from one mountain to another.
The Mountain Goat herd lives on all the highest mountains, and we carry wisdom up and down the mountain. We anchor the light so that it can reach the valleys more easily. At one point in our history, the peoples that lived in the valleys and up the foothills, regarded us as spirits that brought news and brought them foretelling of the weather. We were treated with respect by man. Now, our lives are in danger from what you call “big game hunters”. We do not see their hunting as much of a game. They use high vision heat tracking seeing things to find us, and they corner us. They do not even eat us. These hunters are our worst predator and generate fear for our kind’s future.
The Canada Goose never used to be seen walking about on the snow because it is a migratory bird. However, in mild climates from California to the Great Lakes, some of the population has become non-migratory due to adequate winter food supply and a lack of former predators. (Source Wikipedia) Ducks have also begun to stay further north as a result of the abundance of food and milder winters.
Goose talks about sharing:
“When more birds stay North, we must learn to get along for the food supply is limited, the amount of open water is limited, and the heat available from the open water sewer releases is limited. We have found a way to keep our territories intact and to respect the space of the other flocks. In this way, we share without battle. No one of us needs to own the space. The space – the water – is ever changing and stays not long in one place.
As part of the sharing, we act as guards and alerts for one another. If one of us is safe, then we are all safe. The side benefit of us staying and sharing the same space is that we keep the waters very clean of seaweed type grasses and weeds. Because we each have a preference for different flavors, we eat different things and sharing becomes easier. We do not need to hoard things we do not need for food.”
This morning as my dog and I walked in the small off leash dog park, we were startled by a Doe (Deer) plunging uphill through the snow. It seemed she was running to us. Then she was about fifteen feet away when she veered away. She made intense eye contact with us and in her huffing, seemed to be sounding out a message. I thought that it was for me, however, it does seem to be for all of us.
She says:
“Even though it may seem at the moment, that all of your movement is uphill, the feeling is momentary. When one lives in rolling landscapes, one can expect “rolling” times – both uphill and downhill. Uphill builds one’s strength at a core level, and makes one healthier and able to bear all things. Being strong is a positive. Anyone who simply travels downhill all the time does not have the endurance for life, and will eventually get to the bottom, and lay down and die.
Sometimes the choicest twigs are on the bushes on the side of the hill. Because the bushes are spread out, they get more sun, and they are tastier! One must work harder to get there and one does not need to compete with others for the bushes in the valley.
Breaking a path in the snow is hard work. All new trails, however, are started by one being. I am a trail blazer. Are you?”
Turtle has been a “Keeper of the Earth” for many millions of years. She has evolved and adapted to change as required. She made the transition from water to land, and now, most of her kind are able to move between the two worlds of water and earth – something that humans cannot do without an adequate air supply.
Many of our human sayings are from the life that turtle leads. Some are:
Don’t stick your neck out unless you know what is going on.
Travel lightly for your home is always with you.
Slow but sure wins the day.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Sleepy turtles never catch up with the sunrise.
Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.
Trusting in wealth is like looking for feathers on turtles.
What we humans see when we look at a turtle is a being that is so wise, completely comfortable with its life, and a being that is a survivor. We would all like to be as resilient as a Turtle.
We often think that only other people carry wisdom around with them, and that wisdom in ourselves is non-existent. Many people actually ignore the little voice inside themselves.
So what is that quiet voice? There are many ideas about what it is. Some say it is your soul talking. Others say it is your angels giving you telepathic thoughts. Still others say that it is your connection to the Universe that is letting you know that YOU should do something. Others have said that it is your Ancestors talking to you at a cellular level. Another view is that it is your heart talking to you.
Regardless of the what, the wisdom from that small, quiet voice is very valuable and generally a hundred percent right for the situation at that moment. We don’t listen because our ego over rules the common sense that says that you should listen. We therefore make choices that lead us into all sorts of trouble.
The next time you hear that inner voice, welcome it and have a conversation with it before you make a choice.
Last week, I had a question from a reader who wanted to know about information in a book they were reading. The question was to ask me to confirm if the book was correct or not in what it was saying.
This is a tough question because depending on the book, and when the book was written, the information may have been true at the time, and now in the 21st century, it may be proven false.
When I wonder about information because something about it doesn’t ring true, I go back to the words of Buddha. In his teaching that has become known as the “Kalama Sutta”. The word “Kalama” refers to the people in the village in a township in India that had the question around “what is the correct teaching?”. The word “sutta” has a complex meaning. However, for simplicity’s sake, let’s agree that it means “rules”. The teaching then, is “Rules for the Kalama”. The principles are sound. Buddha says not to take anything on face value.
Well, I won’t say anymore. Read this and you will see how sound this advice is. But, don’t take my word for it! (Smile.)
Judy
Kalama Sutta
The people of Kalama asked the Buddha who to believe out of all the ascetics, sages, venerables, and holy ones who, like himself, passed through their town. They complained that they were confused by the many contradictions they discovered in what they heard. The Kalama Sutta is the Buddha's reply.
Do not believe anything on mere hearsay.
Do not believe in traditions merely because they are old and have been handed down for many generations and in many places.
Do not believe anything on account of rumors or because people talk a a great deal about it.
Do not believe anything because you are shown the written testimony of some ancient sage.
Do not believe in what you have fancied, thinking that, because it is extraordinary, it must have been inspired by a god or other wonderful being.
Do not believe anything merely because presumption is in its favor, or because the custom of many years inclines you to take it as true.
Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and priests.
But, whatever, after thorough investigation and reflection, you find to agree with reason and experience, as conducive to the good and benefit of one and all and of the world at large, accept only that as true, and shape your life in accordance with it.
The same text, said the Buddha, must be applied to his own teachings.
Do not accept any doctrine from reverence, but first try it as gold is tried by fire.
Otter has a happy view of life. Wikipedia says, “Otters are playful animals and appear to engage in various behaviors for sheer enjoyment. Different species vary in their social structure, with some being largely solitary, while others live in groups – in a few species these groups may be fairly large.”
Otter tells us that she knows what it is like to have fear. She and her family are hunted by humans, big cats, eagles, and sometimes wolves, and coyotes. Being hunted has conditioned Otter to keeping a close eye on the landscape and to looking over her shoulder to see what might be watching or sneaking up on her. Each den has an escape route, and often, that escape route takes her right into the river where she can out swim most predators.
However, Otter does not hide away. Instead, she explores her territory and knows where she can hide if need be. She is wily and quick. Even in the coldest of times, she plays because playing helps her forget to be fearful.
If Otter is your guide, then some of the questions that you might answer are:
What is your biggest fear?
What happens to you if this fear does manifest?
Is this the worst that can happen?
Have you tried to create the situation so that you can deal with the fear for once and forever?
What do you do to protect against it?
Otters do not worry. Do you worry about your fear most of the time?
White Tiger has been watching me struggle with all that I “think” that I must do and how the weight is starting to wear me down. She came in to speak with me today.
“I watch you humans move through life and I marvel at your ability to involve yourselves in your cubs and in others lives. What a waste of your abilities! What do I mean? When our cubs are grown, we let them go. We teach them what they need to know for survival. And, we trust that they will survive. We do not go after them all the time to see that they are surviving. If we meet, we touch noses, and move on.
Those of you that do not have children seem to take on the care of other people’s cubs. And, you seem to take on the responsibility for all you come in contact with. Know that each person has their own path, and that you do no good by taking over their responsibilities. It is not in Nature to do this action. It is Nature’s way to let everything be. Humans interfere all the time.
My kind almost disappeared. We were ready to leave, to do the next thing in our natural progression of being. Humans have intervened to keep our kind alive. We are chained to the Earth by what humans have done. The pride that humans seem to have about knowing what is best all the time is one that needs to change.”
Elbow River Boat Launch Turn Out in Elbow Falls Recreation Area July 2023 - J Hirst
All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe. - Louise Hay
We all have days where we feel that everything is going wrong. It is on these days that we can create more problems for ourselves simply by reinforcing our very bad mood. The challenge always is - how do we change this feeling of doom and gloom around?
There are several different ways to change your mood. Method one is to think of happy things and to think about funny situations that have occurred in your life. You can think about a place that it happened or you can think about the person or people that it happened with. I usually think about a person that I have had an adventure with that resulted in some funny stories.
Method two is to take a few minutes to meditate and go to your happy place and meditate yourself calm knowing that nothing is permanent, and all will change.
Method three is to use Louise Hay’s affirmation or mantra, and repeat it to yourself until you feel your body shift. The first part - All is well - tells you that nothing is forever and that whatever is happening to you is a blip on life. Every thing is working out for my highest good - tells you that although you cannot see it, the outcome from this situation will surprise you and the results will be very helpful to you. The last part - I am safe - has the most significance because when we move into an unhappy thinking place, we tend to feel not safe. So we become defensive to anyone who approaches us, and that often makes a bad situation worse. We need to remember that we are safe.
I am amused when I listen to people say that there is “no such thing as magic!” I believe that everyday has lots of magic in it. I think that many people are so busy trying to control their life and to control others around them that they miss the little pieces of magic that happen all the time.
Dictionary.com defines magic as a verb -
verb
move, change, or create by or as if by magic.
"he must have been magicked out of the car at the precise second it exploded"
Physics tells us that energy changes when force is applied to it thus creating a “magical’ change. For example, when we hunting for a product on a store’s shelves and the product isn’t there. We ask a store assistant to help us and they confirm that it is not where it should be, but, they spot it several spaces further on, and there is only one item. They tell you it was misplaced. Perhaps it was. That you could find it when the item is out is magic.
Another good example occurred when my husband and I were travelling. We were picking up our luggage in Vancouver airport. Ours was the last off. Everyone else was gone. My husband was looking at the name tags on our luggage and asked me if I had a felt pen in my purse. Sometimes I do but this time I did not. So he said, “I wish I had a good black felt pen to change the writing on our luggage tags.” Literally moments after he said that, the luggage carousel which was still running, carried a good size black felt pen around to where we were standing. Magic indeed!
In past postings, I have talked about the lessons that we get in life. This poster featuring a quote from the Buddhist teacher, Peña Chodron, explains the concept quite well.
Let me give some examples. An acquaintance of mine was having a terrible time with dating. She was using a dating app and it would seem to connect her with some great guy. They would go out for a month or so, and then he would dump her. She was feeling extremely awful about herself. Her confidence took a huge hit as did her ability to trust and to manage her time.
She finally did some self work using the Tapping Process, took a break from dating and deleted the dating app. She spent close to a year doing things for herself and going out with girl friends to do things that she liked. She even adopted a rescue dog. She loved taking him to the dog park and taking walks with him. You guessed it, on one of her outings, she met a wonderful man, with a dog, and found that they are very compatible. They are good fun to be around and they are slowly combining their houses to one.
The lesson was that as long as she was trying to control her process and manage dating, meeting the right guy wouldn’t work. When she let go of control and went with the flow, then the Universe “helped” her find a companion in two ways.
Today is Remembrance Day in Canada. Today, I remember my great grandfather on my mother’s side, my grandfathers on both my mother’s and my father’s side, numerous great uncles, uncles, and cousins. Most of them are no longer here. Most of them have fought several wars. Some of them are now retired, and still doing what they can for others.
I am thankful that my Ancestors were very brave and that they had a strong sense of right, of truth, and a belief that no one man, no one country, and no one religion should rule the world. I am thankful that they fought for what they believed in. Their actions have been a shiny example for me, of standing on one’s truth.
I am thankful, too, for all the women in my family, who supported the men, and who acted as machinists, nurses, labourers, and who made do with what was available. These women taught me about necessity living.
I am aware that the peace that I have in my life is because all of you stood for what you believed in. Thank – you.
May all of you know that you are honoured and loved through time.
Fox is now seen in towns and cities. She has decided that since man is moving into her territory, she will use man’s space as a hunting ground. She now births her pups in the wooded parks, and keeps them safe during their growing time.
Fox says:
Fox knows how to adapt quickly to new environments. Humans, it seems, want to keep everything the same. I say to you that change is now here and it will be rapid. Look at the changing Nature around you. Figure out how to adapt and enjoy the change. Fighting against it will cause you to be ill.
Going into another’s area or territory will give you a new perspective on life. Simply sitting in your chair, in your territory, and criticizing what others do is not useful. Go! Explore! And perhaps you will learn compassion along the way.
My pups are most precious and I will do anything to keep them safe. I teach them to read the land, and to listen to the animals. I teach them to know what is good food and bad food. I teach them to dig and to build a den. I watch and listen to how your pups are treated. You stick them in territories with fences around them and unnatural play things. They do not know how to be in the woods or the grasslands. They do not know how to fend for themselves and to be aware. Are your children not precious to you?
A new student approached the Zen master and asked how he should prepare himself for his training. "Think of me a bell," the master explained. "Give me a soft tap, and you will get a tiny ping. Strike hard, and you'll receive a loud, resounding peal."
Although this is a very short koan (koans are saying, phrases, or questions meant to be contemplated), it is profound in the depth of the teaching message.
This picture of an owl comes from an email so the source is unknown.
Owl is a night-time creature so we do not expect to see it during the day. However, when Owl has pressing messages, she will fly at any time. Owl has these messages to share.
“Owls have very good vision. It is time to practice improving your vision. Do not look only ahead. Look to the sides. Increase the flexibility of your neck and shoulders, and learn to look behind you. What comes up behind you is as important as what is ahead.”
“Owls sit in the branches of trees and watch the ground to spot tasty morsels to eat. This is also a good way to observe the patterns of animal life on the ground. Take time to get up high or to step back ten paces from your life so that you can see your daily routine objectively. What is it that you do over and over that gives you no pleasure and no gain? Why do you do it? What old pattern drives this? Think about what you can do differently.”
“Owls operate best at night and in the early morning because that is our high energy time. Do you shun the night and the early morning? This is the high energy time for humans too. You feel the pull of the Sun and the pull of the stars and planets. This is the time to gather the energy of peace. Try changing your routine for three months to see when you feel like you have more energy and will. Do you feel better on your current routine or getting up earlier, for example, at 5:30am?”
A second 10-foot wide sinkhole appeared about a foot away from a 25-foot-wide sinkhole that appeared in January at Cape Kiwanda. May 8, 2023, Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area, Oregon.
Courtesy of Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area
Last week, a 10-foot-wide sinkhole appeared at Cape Kiwanda on Oregon’s north coast. This is the second sinkhole to appear at the cape this year, just inches away from the one that emerged in January.
A sinkhole is a depression in the ground that has no external drainage. So, when it rains the water stays inside, ponds up and then drains down into the subsurface.
I was wondering why there have been so many sink holes appearing all around the world in 2023.
The guidance that came to me is that humans have been pressuring the Earth for the last thirty-five years, and covering huge parts of her with cement in the form of roads, parking lots, big buildings, runways, and developments. These “coverings” have choked off the Earth’s natural ability to breathe. Even though, in some cases, Man has created huge craters in the form of open pit mines, the holes are not natural and do not allow the Earth to breathe properly.
As with any creature, the Earth is finally struggling not to choke and die. She therefore opens up huge breathing holes, similar to the whales opening their blow holes, where ever it feels natural and right. Earth pays no attention to what is on the surface.
If we saw another human cruelly choking an animal, we would cry out in outrage, and work to stop the human who was doing the choking. It is now helpful to have that same view around the sink holes that are appearing. Yes, it is too bad that people are loosing houses and garages. Maybe they are required to move elsewhere.
If you are having difficulty picturing the difficulty that Mother Earth is having with her breathing, take a few minutes to do this meditation.
Meditation on Earth Breathing
1. Put on some very tight clothes.
2. Sit as comfortably as you can in meditation position – perhaps full lotus.
3. As you start the meditation, breath in deeply for a count of seven, hold for seven, and release for seven.
4. Do this for a minute.
5. Notice how difficult it is to take a deep breath? Even after you have done several of them, the going seems to get tougher, and not easier.
6. Try it again to see if it easier the second time.
7. Now, go and change clothes and get into some very comfortable, loose clothing.
8. Try the same exercise again.
9. Do you see the difference? Do you feel the difference? Do you feel like stretching after you get into the looser clothing?
10. It is the same for Mother Earth.
11. Now, do the breathing, taking in very deep breaths, and imagine that you are harmonizing your breath to the Mother’s.
12. Feel your anxiousness subside. Feel the Earth become calmer. Feel the Oneness, and the peace.
13. Do this breathing exercise for ten minutes.
14. When you are finished, bow to Mother Earth nine times to honour her journey, and thank her for providing the greater home that you live on.
One of the universal symbols of freedom is the horse. It has strength, speed, intelligence, and a nobility that touches peoples’ hearts. Some of the best stories and legends are about horses.
When I saw this picture, I quickly went to a place of wondering what this Earth would look like if Horse was in the place of dominance that Man is currently in.
Would Horse have let the planet get to the state that we are in now?
I believe that under Horse rule, the following would never have occurred:
fast food – they have grass and dried grass
cars – in fact, I don’t think they would have even invented the wheel
shopping malls
open pit mining
gas and oil drilling and spills and the death of many water creatures
logging
urban development and sprawls
tobacco/cigarettes and cigars
paint
I am sure there is a whole list of things to be added here. Go ahead and suggest things to add to the list. I will update this blog later with all your ideas.
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...
