This is a TEAM effort. We are not alone. We can always ask for support, as that is what our team is here for. They patiently await our beckoning. Our team leaders, our High Selves, are the ones who wrote our game plans for this life. For our High Selves ARE our shepherds. Together, the [...]
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The 23rd
Aug 4
Opening to perfection is a combination of perfect trust and deep gratitude for the perfection that is all. Open your heart, mind and body to your experience as a divine being incarnate in human form, and give thanks for the abundance of life that you are blessed to receive in all forms. Just by breathing in air and being given life in every moment you are deeply blessed.
Woody Guthrie
Dec 29
Guthrie was tired of the radio overplaying Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”. He thought the lyrics were unrealistic and complacent. Partly inspired by his experiences during a cross-country trip and his distaste for God Bless America, he penned “This Land Is Your Land”, in February 1940; it was subtitled “God Blessed America.”
On Relationship Essentials
Dec 28
The much valued wise words on the essentials of any functional relationship were passed down to me in verbal clarity in the kitchen of one of my restaurant jobs from a veteran chef. You need three things for any relationship to work – communication, respect and trust. Without any one of these relationship begins to fall apart. This knowledge has made it quite easy to pinpoint what’s going on with awkward or uncomfortable relations – one of these things is missing. It is often clear communication when it comes to any basic relationship or exchange. When communication is missing, then we quickly loose trust for the other as we (essentially) feel confused and afraid and then we loose respect …
Jimmy Mirikitani
Dec 15
Jimmy Mirikitani is a man that once lived on the curb sides of Washington Square and created his artwork there on the streets. His favorite mediums were crayon, colored pencil and ballpoint pen because they didn’t smear when left out in the rain. He refused handouts because he was not a beggar; he was an artist and he sold and traded his artwork to survive. If you knew nothing else about him but what is expressed in his artwork, you would know that he was a man with a poet’s soul, and a man who had experienced and lived through trauma.
Jimmy’s motto – Make art, not war.
Raku is the symbol for the root chakra and is the seventh of the course. It symbolizes the primal life force, the wish to live. When we identify with body survival we generate fear, when we identify with life itself, we generate celebration! It is placed in the sacrum at the base of the spine.
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Václav Havel
Dec 1
A true rebel with a cause, Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, and former dissident. He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. He has received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. He was also voted [...]
It is impossible control Life by force – to control the Life our human expression as inherent individuals living freely on our planet. Attempting to do so will only end in the destruction of who we are as humans.
Inevitably, unconquerable Life will always prevail – no matter how much control and destruction you meddle in for it to break free from your poison, and you will be just as consumed by your own destructive nature as any – cannibalism.
Sei He Ki (pronounced “Say”, “He”, “Key”) is the Reiki symbol for the belly and is the fifth of the course. It is a symbol for emotional healing – as we hold a great deal of emotion in our belly. It is particularly for the healing of the inner-child, it’s neglected needs and invalidated sensitivities. “I let Divine Energy go back into my time line and fulfill my genuine growth needs. I allow myself to be healed of all past mistakes. I realized that my parents loved me as best that they could, given their own wounds, issues, and limitations.”
Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen means “the god in me honors the god in you” – similar to the often shared “namaste” in the spiritual community, it’s a lovely salutation. It symbolizes our inner divinity and how we mutually respect each other. It is used in remote healing and is a Shingon Chant to burn away karma. The symbol, when drawn, shows us how to manifest our intentions. “I center myself in the four elements. I surrender into trusting the Divine to care for me and protect me. I yield my body, mind and heart into the process. I send energy into open receptive spaces and allow parts of me and others to be reborn in love.”
