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Awe…more
Posted by: | Comments[Well, I couldn't resist!] Rain has returned to the valley the past month, and despite a few frosty nites, the grass is turning green and growing… I may get another lawn mowing in. Kat and I did the annual craft bazaar at Crater Lake Rock Museum, [to which we belong] Saturday, with modest sales. Made some interesting contacts, also.
Today was absolutely stunning… a misty morning for our walk along the canal, acorns and oak leaves underfoot. Not even the surrounding mountains were visible, and the trees were a beautiful muted rainbow. A time of wonder. By early afternoon the sky was crystal clear, flooded with golden light.
There are sources that suggest that developing a sense of awe is highly beneficial to one’s spiritual development. Perhaps. But it is also a very fun thing to do. I have been in awe about soap bubbles in the dishwater, I’ve found. For me, I’ve found awe in remembering more dreams, about “strangers” I see in the streets, about my relationship with myself, worms under a pile of leaves I just collected, someone’s willingness [or not] to tackle a problem.
It seems a willingness to engage in awe leads to evermore opportunities. Sometimes it is a quick feeling, or I can spend time with it and almost get “lost” in the amazingness of a thing. Awe has no judgement… it just is. And it certainly gives me a sense of a more solid foundation.
Awe
Posted by: | CommentsI collected the last of the tomatoes today, and probably the last of the raspberries and alpine strawberries. We had a light frost last nite, and the pumpkin plants finally gave up the ghost. Arrow discovered he likes the little tomatoes, but like the berries, he wants them hand fed. Guess he is not into self picking.
The trees are awesome, and I often spend time simply drawing in the sometimes glowing colors. I find it a good energy technique for replenishment. Awe is involved here… I try spending more than a few moments at this. I’ve gotten to doing this more often, not only with aspects of nature, but also with people. Building on and exploring awe seems to lead to some wonderful and sometimes subtle insights that don’t always seem to fit into words. Guess it is a personal thing….
Richness of Life
Posted by: | CommentsAs abruptly as summer hit, it left, with daytime temps dropping from 90s to high 40. The catalpa across the street has been shedding leaves at a steady rate, altho most of the deciduous are barely starting to shed. The lavender up the street smells wonderful, and the blue jays are temporarily back. Kat is in New Jersey for about a month, so Arrow and I are batching it.
Last week before she left, Kat asked for a stone with this engraving:
All bets are off…
Anything is possible.
That got me to thinking of how rich this life is with potential. Any given moment presents a multitude of options, cloaked only by our habits of this lifetime, and our willingness to select and activate a new option.
Our souls are filled with other/alternate lifetimes that have learned many talents… many abilities. Most of these are available now, if we choose to activate them. Do you wish to be more open and loving? Do automatic writing? Converse with your soul? Be a healer? Levitate objects?
Choose your new path. Select or design a meditation that takes you beyond your mental/physical self… say to the center of the universe. [I imagine myself in deep space, with the glory of the universe around me.] There, set your intention to remember how to do whatever you have chosen. Make that intention clear and concise. Then return with the knowledge that your choice has been activated. Allow the memory of how to achieve your goal to come in its’ own timing. Have no expectations of how this may occur. Just remember, when working with your soul…
All bets are off…
Anything is possible.
Sacred Dance
Posted by: | CommentsStories of how people discovered their way fascinate me. Leslie Zehr’s drew me for the recounting, but also for her subject matter… dancing Mother Earth’s energy… and thus our energy.
“I came upon this experience by “chance.” One evening I was dancing and noticed that as I moved around the room I could feel different energy patterns emanating from the ground. Curious, I continued to move around the room. I realized that I could “dance the room.” I then did this with music as well and realized that every wave pattern was present in the music. It became easy to coordinate the energy pattern emanating from the room with the music and the movement. In this case, the energy pattern was the guide as it lead me through the space. The possibilities are infinite.”
That, and the following, are available here.
“For anyone who has not danced with the Universe, it is a beautiful and creative experience. Training will elevate the experience but anyone can peek behind the curtain. Just find some primal, tribal, heavy drum music; turn off the lights; and, like the bat, just follow your radar and fly!”
Those quotes are from an article she published on another site. I had hoped to see them in her new book “The Alchemy of Dance”, but she does share other bits of how she came to dance the earth. Leslie introduces the hows of earth dancing… clearing the body to run earth energy. She makes it so easy one wonders how we ever forgot this essential ingredient of our lives. For me the book and her work are very heartworthy.
I had never thought of earth dancing the way Leslie describes it. Whilst her aim is assisting women in rediscovering their earth connection and their bodies thru dance, I’ve learned quite a bit from her writings. The males among us might well broaden horizons reading thru her material. I’ve come across nothing similar for us guys. Her site is www.universaldancer.com and The Alchemy of Dance seems to be available thru major booksellers.
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