Love = sharing. I have been thinking about this in relationship to the series of classes I have just done. I love the material, love people; love learning and so to teach becomes an easy and natural “next step” to share my knowledge and love.
A lot of my blogs are written for clients and have been inspired by their questions and this is one of them .
I have been thinking more on this sharing of love and love and sharing. I spent a delightful impromptu evening with my friends on Sunday and could feel the energy of all mingling and expanding and supporting as we interacted and shared our thoughts and “aha’s” with each other. The comfort and ease within us and with sharing same energy with others …from close friend to strangers…was evident throughout the evening. This recognition of our respective comfort in our own skin is really only possible when we know ourself and live from the energy of love and freely communicate. When we are living from the mindset of loving emotions we want – and are open – to sharing this energy freely and without filters. It translates to a love of life. I feel so privileged to know these people and have them as my friends. My life is all the richer because of them.
The antithesis of this open living of the spiritual ethical values is to refuse to share thoughts, dreams, ideas, concepts, the up and downs of life and learning. All of which is really about refusing to open our mind. To not use our thinking mind is to deny our spirit. We have to use our thinking mind to get to the loving emotions and the spirit senses to become a spirit consciousness. This is the pattern of the mind. There are no short cuts.
We can be socially active and still be living in isolation by not sharing ourselves openly though communication with the energy of love and truth. Instead we hold back our thoughts and emotions because of our judgement – of self - reflected externally and this negative energy is then thrust upon others. This energy is abusive on all levels. Oftentimes those we consider nearest and dearest to us will get the brunt of this controlling energy field. This truly is a person isolated from spirit. I look back to my early years and see this “protective” pattern of living because I did not want to be hurt which is so amusing because only the ego fears being hurt. This is how sneaky the ego fear beliefs are. This external reflection is really just the ego doing its best to preserve itself in all its negative delusional “glory” by not opening the mind to change and to grow. So we control and judge to maintain the ego shell around us. This is how we isolate and separate from the internal energy of the love of spirit and from others, which leaves us very uncomfortable in our skin an unable to truly know ourself.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
a walk through my garden and my mind
I have been out and about walking and puttering around in my garden. My mind has wandered and has been a wonderful companion. Here is a stream of consciousness that I will share with you.
We practice self-alienation through our negative thinking based on our fear belief structure. We then reflect this distorted energy externally and interpret it as judgment, rejection and abandonment by whatever or whomever our fertile ego mind can drum up to blame. When our lack of thinking is the norm and we are really just living from a reactive energy. This energy field is familiar, and what is familiar and known to us is fear. Fear = separation/self alienation and this fosters a very negative and chaotic mind and energy field. This very same energy feeds in on itself and the alienation from our truth and love intensifies; the more “lost” we feel and the more controlling of self and others we become. This is living in chaos and separated from divine energy. It is practicing self destruction and abuse.
While in my garden I was examining the flowers and I recognized myself in them. I mean that all of life follows a pattern…the same pattern of birth-life-death-birth-life etc. To judge myself for something done or said is to deny who I am as a soul and spirit. It is this judgement that is the self-alienating process and it becomes stultifying to growth and change. I see my plants coming up and I am excited at each new change that happens – that I get to observe. The formation of a bud is beautiful yet it “loses” it beauty to change and growth as it becomes a full bloom. The full flower that offers my senses such delight only lives because the bud continued to change and grow and the change continues its full and perennial cycle.
My garden continues to teach me and like the fluid organic nature of the plants, no part is separate. Life is about growth and change. The plant grows flowers by letting go of the bud. The flower becomes its own expression and expansion of the young bud. For me to focus only upon the bud of a rose, for example, I totally miss the entire beauty of the life cycle. This could be analogous to trying to hold onto youth and judging age as something abhorrent and to be avoided at all cost. Perhaps this is the fear of death? It is the fear of change. It does not really matter because it is still fear, control, negative energy and denial of spirit. This is refusing to change and grow and experience life in full. The more I am willing to live the spiritual patterns of the ethical values, the more comfort I find within me and the more exciting life becomes. This is our perennial movement as our cycle of Being.
We practice self-alienation through our negative thinking based on our fear belief structure. We then reflect this distorted energy externally and interpret it as judgment, rejection and abandonment by whatever or whomever our fertile ego mind can drum up to blame. When our lack of thinking is the norm and we are really just living from a reactive energy. This energy field is familiar, and what is familiar and known to us is fear. Fear = separation/self alienation and this fosters a very negative and chaotic mind and energy field. This very same energy feeds in on itself and the alienation from our truth and love intensifies; the more “lost” we feel and the more controlling of self and others we become. This is living in chaos and separated from divine energy. It is practicing self destruction and abuse.
While in my garden I was examining the flowers and I recognized myself in them. I mean that all of life follows a pattern…the same pattern of birth-life-death-birth-life etc. To judge myself for something done or said is to deny who I am as a soul and spirit. It is this judgement that is the self-alienating process and it becomes stultifying to growth and change. I see my plants coming up and I am excited at each new change that happens – that I get to observe. The formation of a bud is beautiful yet it “loses” it beauty to change and growth as it becomes a full bloom. The full flower that offers my senses such delight only lives because the bud continued to change and grow and the change continues its full and perennial cycle.
My garden continues to teach me and like the fluid organic nature of the plants, no part is separate. Life is about growth and change. The plant grows flowers by letting go of the bud. The flower becomes its own expression and expansion of the young bud. For me to focus only upon the bud of a rose, for example, I totally miss the entire beauty of the life cycle. This could be analogous to trying to hold onto youth and judging age as something abhorrent and to be avoided at all cost. Perhaps this is the fear of death? It is the fear of change. It does not really matter because it is still fear, control, negative energy and denial of spirit. This is refusing to change and grow and experience life in full. The more I am willing to live the spiritual patterns of the ethical values, the more comfort I find within me and the more exciting life becomes. This is our perennial movement as our cycle of Being.
acid/alkaline ...some morning thoughts
While in the shower I was thinking about acid/alkaline of the water from my well and how I note a difference after heavy rain has fallen. From this point my mind went on to think about Earth and how it is stressed from all the chemicals we have dumped into it and this makes it more acid…I see how the wild fire help to alkalize the soil through the ash and the cracking open of rock to release/break down and mineralize the soil...there is a theory that the ice age was a way of alkalizing the Earth by pulverizing the rocks and leaving huge mineral deposits. Volcanic activity has a similar effect. Excess rain helps to cleanse the soil by diluting the man-made added chemicals. Earth tries to rebalance/alkalize itself every which way it can. Our body is the same pattern as Earth. It tries to keep an alkaline balance internally by drawing minerals from organs, tissues and bones. I think back to when my mother died and the emotional shock I experienced was stressing my entire system/s thereby making me very acidic. The innate intelligence of the body to maintain its internal integrity drew from bone for calcium to help buffer the acidic state of my cells. As a result, I broke a tooth without major physical trauma being exerted. This is just a snippet of the fractal pattern that we live from. When we separate ourselves from clean air, clean water, clean food we separate ourselves from our health and our home within our physical matter (body) and from our home on Earth.
Look at the air we are breathing. It has decreased in volume of oxygen over the past 60 years. Why? Acidity! We have expelled a lot of toxic gases into the air and produced acid rain as a side effect. This acidity of the rain has impacted vegetation. I have hiked a lot of the trails on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and had noticed some of the trees looked like they were dying, particularly the dogwoods. I have since found out that they are being slowly poisoned by acid rain. This very same rain is soaking into the water table from which we draw our drinking water. Our food is grown in the same conditions we are living under. It is no wonder our state of health is rapidity declining! We have acidity every which way from breathing, eating and drinking from chemically unbalanced sources. This can only produce an acidic (read inflamed) , unbalanced body.
It is our personal responsibility to be conscious of our chemical design and our interdependency on the Universe, Earth and Nature. We begin to heal by alkalizing our cellular body through clean air/deep breathing (use plants to help cleanse surrounding air), clean mineral water from glass bottles, and bio-organically grown foods that have not been genetically engineered. The fourth part to all this is to feed our mind with thought provoking material. Our thinking mind is our functional spirit so to not use it is to deny our indwelling spirit. To not use our thinking mind becomes yet another pattern of separation.
Look at the air we are breathing. It has decreased in volume of oxygen over the past 60 years. Why? Acidity! We have expelled a lot of toxic gases into the air and produced acid rain as a side effect. This acidity of the rain has impacted vegetation. I have hiked a lot of the trails on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and had noticed some of the trees looked like they were dying, particularly the dogwoods. I have since found out that they are being slowly poisoned by acid rain. This very same rain is soaking into the water table from which we draw our drinking water. Our food is grown in the same conditions we are living under. It is no wonder our state of health is rapidity declining! We have acidity every which way from breathing, eating and drinking from chemically unbalanced sources. This can only produce an acidic (read inflamed) , unbalanced body.
It is our personal responsibility to be conscious of our chemical design and our interdependency on the Universe, Earth and Nature. We begin to heal by alkalizing our cellular body through clean air/deep breathing (use plants to help cleanse surrounding air), clean mineral water from glass bottles, and bio-organically grown foods that have not been genetically engineered. The fourth part to all this is to feed our mind with thought provoking material. Our thinking mind is our functional spirit so to not use it is to deny our indwelling spirit. To not use our thinking mind becomes yet another pattern of separation.
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