Lion Blessings

May this day carry a blessing for you.

May this blessing be as gentle as a hug, and as great as Africa.

May you get the Lion’s share of love!

Blessings,

Judy

Lion on Love

                

One of my friends sent me this picture.  I looked at it, and thought it was great, and then deleted it.  Then, when I was “Stumbling”, I came across the picture again.  Again, I thought it was great, and hit the button to move past it.  Everything moved, and then shifted back to the picture.  Ah!  I realized that I was being given this picture for a reason.

I sat with the picture and meditated.  I used the mantra, Loving Kindness, to relax and move into that place of peace and stillness.  I was hovering in that place where thoughts come up to you, and you simply wave them away, without really seeing them.  And then a much larger, dark figure walked into my meditation silence.  He coughed to draw attention to himself.  I looked at him, and said, “Can I help you?”

The Lion moved into my consciousness, fully, and said he had some information for me.  I settled back and said that I would be glad to hear it.  He began speaking.

“We often hear in the great whispers that go around through the air, that you two leggeds do not think that we love.  Love, as we understand it, is when you totally commit to protect and to honour those charges around you; that you realize that without them, you would feel lost and perhaps incomplete.  We lions love absolutely in the nature of our kind. 

We are different than two leggeds because we do not intentionally plan treachery – to hurt or to kill – the ones we love.  WE work to protect them. 

And, so it is that we are different.  We say to you, “judge us not as dumb beasts”.”

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Blessings,

Judy

Lion on Sleeping

It is interesting, sometimes, that I often wonder if I am ever alone.  

Again, sitting in meditation, I get this feeling that someone is watching me.  As I grow more quiet, I hear a heavy, panting type of breathing.  I look around, and there is this very large African Lion on the edge of my space.  I greeted him, and asked him if I could help him.  

“Yes,” he said.  “I have come to give you some wisdom about sleeping.  These are things to share with all out there (meaning in the world).”

I asked him to begin, and this is what he shared.

• All living creatures must sleep because it is during sleep that great hurts are healed or healing quickly, and that muscles recover.
• Sleep does not mean that you must sleep for a certain length of time.  Be mindful of when you are feeling tired.  That is the best time to sleep.  Humans seem to go way beyond tiredness and then their bodies cannot sleep because they are too busy working to repair damage done by being over wakeful.
• The best time to sleep is after a meal.  Then, the digestion can pull the energy it needs to properly and quickly turn food into more energy.  If you keep going after eating, then the energy is split into different areas and the food sits like toxins in your stomach.  The acid may in fact make it toxic.
• Find a sleep position that gives you the most pleasure, and use that to move through your sleep cycle.  Lions like to sleep in a heap.  Do you feel better with others or on your own?  What ever it is, honour it.

There was the sounds of growling far away, and Lion said farewell, promising to be back in the future to finish his discussion on sleeping.

Many blessings,

Judy

Lion on Pride - A Spirit Animal

 

The Lion speaks about his PRIDE – his family, and pride and joy.  Lion says that you do not get to default on your responsibilities to your family. If you decide to walk away because you need a change, know that you can never go back.  When your PRIDE is gone, it is taken over by  a new leader/father/teacher, and the memory of you is dust.

The PRIDE is dependent on one another and although each lioness, cub, or lion is individual, they also have an identity as a whole. Change is a constant to the PRIDE.  Some are born, some leave, and some die.  It is the circle of life.  The constants are the rules of the PRIDE, and the survival of the PRIDE.

Blessings,

Judy