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<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto">3 Key Practices for Empaths/HSPs</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">Being a sensitive person can be a confusing complicated thing in this still harsh world. It feels intuitively right to open, to feel, to enhearten our daily life, but the world is still vibrating at a more armored and edgy place. It is not yet attuned to the ways of the open heart. So what to do? We don’t want to deaden our capacity to feel, but if we feel too much, we get run over by an often heartless world. I have found my best answer in <span><a></a></span>three places...</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">Selective Attachment: carefully discerning between positive and negative individuals and environments, and only attaching to those people and places that can hold our tender heart safe;</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">Strong Energetic Boundaries: being physically and emotionally charged, so that we can more effectively repel unwelcome energies;</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">Conscious Armoring: learning how to put on armor when necessary to manage the world and difficult situations, and, consciously removing it when it is no longer needed.</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">If we cultivate these practices, we stand a much better chance of preserving our sensitivity. Once we lose it, we lose our connection to the moment altogether. Here’s to a sensitive way of being! What a courageous path...</div>
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<div dir="auto">(excerpt from the book 'Spiritual Graffiti' by Jeff Brown)</div>
</div>Sun Salutationtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2023-05-20:2344239:BlogPost:1528852023-05-20T11:42:08.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto">Sun Salutation Chant </div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">The sun salutation chant is an accompaniment to the surya namaskar series of…</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">The sun salutation chant is an accompaniment to the surya namaskar series of 12 asanas. While the sun salutation as a series is not technically in the Hatha Yoga canon of poses, it is done quite often as a warm-up, cool-down, or integrated into a yoga practice session alone.</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">Step-by-Step Sun Salutation Chant</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">This is a rough outline of every pose and chant through one cycle of the sun salutation. It should be used for reference only, as the pronunciation of a chant along with that proper body pose for each asana should be taught by a yoga instructor.</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">1.Pranamasan Begin in Mountain Pose, standing with feet together, spine straight, palms pressed together at the chest. Exhaling, chant Om mitraaya namaha (Salutations to the Friend of All).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">2.Hasta Uttanasana Arching your back (and in some versions, bringing the arms straight up overhead) inhale a full breath. Om ravaye namaha (Salutations to the Shining One).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">3.Pada Hastasana Bending over at the waist, extend the arms down to touch the toes. Exhale and Om suryaaya namaha (Salutations to he who induces activity).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">4.Ashwa-sanchalan-asan Extend the left or right foot backwards (you will alternate when the next sun salutation is done) into a deep lunge or Horse Pose. Inhale and chant Om bhaanve namaha (Salutations to he who illumines).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">5.Parvatasana Extend the other leg back and lift your hips into Downward Facing Dog Pose. Exhale with a Om khagaaya namaha (Salutations to one who moves through the sky).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">6.Ashtanga Namaskar Holding the breath, lower your arms keeping your body straight, also known as Plank position. The chant for this is Om pooshney namaha (Salutations to the giver of strength and nourishment).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">7.Bhujangasana Pushing up with your arms and keeping the legs straight, arch the back into Cobra pose. Inhale and chant Om hiranayagarbhaaya namah (Salutations to the Golden Cosmic Self).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">8.Parvatasana Exhale moving the hips back into Downward Facing Dog. Chant Om mareechibhyoh namaha (Salutations to the Rays of the Sun).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">9.Ashwa-sanchalan-asan Return the left or right leg (whichever was extended the first time) into the lunge. Chant Om adityaaya namaha (Salutations to Sun of Aditi, the Cosmic Mother) with the inhalation.</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">10.Pada Hastana Exhale as you bring the other leg up, feet next to each other, so that you are bent at the hips. Chant Om savitre namaha (Salutations to the Stimulating power of the Sun).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">11.Hasta Uttanasana Inhale and bring the arms up, all the way overhead into a slight back bend. The chant that goes with this pose is Om arkaaya namaha (Salutations to he who is fit to be praised).</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">By Gray Miller</div>
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<p><span>This is my and Eric's full blue moon altar which captures the view of the full-moon through the window as you can see. Each candle has one of</span> <span>our gratitudes or prayers written on it, one candle for each of us and the 3rd written together. This is a simple ritual you can create in a moon-facing window tonight. Choose a…</span></p>
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<p><span>This is my and Eric's full blue moon altar which captures the view of the full-moon through the window as you can see. Each candle has one of</span> <span>our gratitudes or prayers written on it, one candle for each of us and the 3rd written together. This is a simple ritual you can create in a moon-facing window tonight. Choose a colored or white candle that speaks to you, center yourself, and write down a prayer, gratitude, intention or your current sankalpa (a heartfelt vow or intention you are holding or devoted to) that you would like to or are working with at this time. Write the word or prayer on the candle, and light the candle as a sign of offering your prayer up to the Divine. Whatever we focus on during the full moon is often felt as being magnified. So consider being intentional with what you are feeling, either as something to release and let go of, or to manifest and strengthen.</span></p>
<p>A stress-free simple altar can hold a place for reflection or focusing your foremost intimate intentions with self, your life, or God. In a simple and carefree no-pressure practice that anyone can do.</p>
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<p>It can mark a special place in the peak of the lunar cycle.</p>
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<p>For more inspiration on how you can enjoy living in alignment with lunar and seasonal cyclical living, stay tuned. </p>Energy Upgrade 2020tag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2020-06-20:2344239:BlogPost:1146962020-06-20T14:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Music, dance and movement and sitting on the earth are great ways to support & balance ascension affects on the body at this momentous time of unknown and collective crisis</strong></em></p>
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<p><span>It's been…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Music, dance and movement and sitting on the earth are great ways to support & balance ascension affects on the body at this momentous time of unknown and collective crisis</strong></em></p>
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<p><span>It's been a long time since I've posted but I felt compelled to drop a little note to our old beloved site.</span></p>
<p><span>Our bodies and the structures of our worlds are undergoing a massive accelerated experience towards systemic and global change. Ascension energy and an urgent need for collective paradigmic shift is continually impacting every cell and system in the body including endocrine, circulatory, digestive, immunological and all aspects of our complex highly sensitive and empathic nervous systems. This can feel uncomfortable to say the least, and exhausting too. Self care is needed now more than ever, to rest as needed - often and daily if your body is calling for it, to drink more water - you cannot honor the need our bodies have for more water and hydration at this time, and to regulate and support especially the highly sensitive or trauma-affected nervous system with daily movement as well. Move the body in any supportive ways that you can, gentle and easy exercise, dancing, walks in nature, simple or restorative yoga practices, uncomplicated sitting meditation or any grounding practice that you like such as counting breath pranayama, or simply sitting or walking on the earth.</span></p>
<p><span>I hope everyone is feeling supported, and practicing mindful self kindness too. Gift yourself grace through any limitations you or your sensitive body are experiencing at this momentous shift in the collective and still a great unknown on planet earth. Trust that you will be guided and held through the pandemic experience and will find new ways to both connect and deepen inner and outer connections and self development. In every bumpy step along the way, don't let your energy become stagnant.</span></p>
<p><span>I feel such a need myself to keep moving my sensitive body, and dancing inside or outdoors with music that I love is one sure way I honor and express all that is arising at this time inside of me. Dance dance dance if you feel called as well. It is one simple intuitive spiritual multi-level urge to keep my energy flowing and moving and grounded.</span></p>
<p>Take care as the world is experiencing a much needed systemic paradigm breaking open and shift. </p>
<p>june 20, 2020 </p>The Power of Letting Go: Who or What Are You Ready to Forgive?tag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-09-26:2344239:BlogPost:1519852017-09-26T14:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" id="js_1u"><p>Just like trees let go of old dead leaves, forgiveness is a letting go of something that no longer serves and is ready to be released. </p>
<p>Yes, grief, anger or heartache appeared on your path as you recovered from difficult experiences and legitimate emotional traumas of the past. These feelings were strong loving ally messengers with important information for you to hear and respond to, or teaching you about your humanity and need for self care as you navigate the hurts and experiences of human life.</p>
<p>However, now you find yourself some significant amount of time later, and really wanting and feeling ready to move forward on your spiritual path. But still, even all of this time later, there seems to be something in the way holding you back.</p>
<p>Does this sound familiar to you?</p>
<p>If this is true for you it may be time to reflect on the choice of moving into a deeper relationship with forgiveness. </p>
<p>Two views of forgiveness I find helpful in freeing myself from emotional attachments to past events that are causing me to suffer in the long term unnecessarily are these: 1) I can choose to see forgiveness as no longer taking anyone else's actions or behaviors personally; or 2) I can choose to see forgiveness as no longer holding resentment towards either myself or another person or event, so I can fully adopt a higher perspective that will carry me forward in peace at long long last. It's important to note that even if I choose to take action to right a wrong that may still need righting, I can with the nuance of this type of forgiveness, choose to take that action from a place of power to do what's right instead of perpetual suffering. </p>
<p>This key in my own forgiveness journey that has been so helpful is the perspective of clarifying that forgiveness is not-condoning, but rather a foundation of non-attachment. And in expanding an experienced understanding, that I can own and feel and heal my inner pain feelings, but that holding onto anger at myself or another for past mistakes or even gross harm, only perpetuates my own suffering, which I can transform if I bring the entirety of the reality into greater view as time goes on, and yes, over time and process for each valid hurting part of my that experienced shock or harm. </p>
<p>These are some of the reflections I notice as I watch the autumn leaves falling in non-resistance, floating and dancing through the air to the ground, and quite delightfully and happily in fact. Here I reflect on the possibility that one day, after what feels like a journey of a thousand years and many lifetimes through a familiar familial life trauma experience, my own letting go of my own karmic patterns for facing this situation again might one day fall away at long last as sweet. With a deeper integration of a higher perspective around life and my power of choice to move on. </p>
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<p>And then there's the mysterious grace that sometimes envelopes me, when I feel the totality of who and what I am in God, and that others who betray God's wishes have their own karmic path to unfold, while I remain free to find peace within myself and move on. This, is a greatest spiritual growth moment, beyond my own ego's understanding of the daily road, to healing and peace. </p>
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<p>reflections on the forgiveness journey, draft</p>
<p><span><em>autumn tree photo: Jarrod Casting</em></span></p>
</div>LOTUS SUTRA: Second Chaptertag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-08-29:2344239:BlogPost:1062822017-08-29T02:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>THE 2ND CHAPTER. HOBEN PROSE FORM</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Myoho renge kyo — The wonderful Law of the Lotus Sutra</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Ho ben pon dai ni: Skillful Ways<br/> Ni Ji Se Son — There the World Honored One<span> </span><br/> Ju San Mai — Quietly came up<span> </span><br/> An Jo Ni Ki — From his samadhi<span> </span><br/> Go Shari Hotsu — And said to Shariputra:<span> </span><br/> Sho Bu' Chi E — The wisdom of the Buddhas<span> </span><br/> Jin Jin Mu Ryo — Is profound and cannot be measured<span> </span><br/> Go Chi E Mon — Its gate is hard to understand<span> </span><br/> Nange Nan Nyu — And difficult to enter.<span> </span><br/> Is Sai Sho Mon — No Shravaka-Disciple<span> </span><br/> Hyaku Shi Butsu — Or Self-taught buddha<span> </span><br/> Sho Fu No Chi — Can understand it.<span> </span><br/> Sho I Sha Ga — Why is that? (because!)<span> </span><br/> Butsu Zo Shin Gon —the [present] Buddhas attended on many<span> </span><br/> Hyaku Sen Man Noku — hundreds of thousands of billions<span> </span><br/> Mu Shu Sho Butsu — Of [past] Buddhas,<span> </span><br/> Jin Gyo Sho Butsu — And practiced the many teachings<span> </span><br/> Mu Ryo Do Ho — Of those Buddhas bravely and energetically<span> </span><br/> Yu Myo Sho Jin — To their far-flung fame till they attained<span> </span><br/> Myo Sho Fu Mon — The profound Law<span> </span><br/> Jo Ju Jin Jin — Which you've never heard before,<span> </span><br/> Mi Zo U Ho — And also because they are exposing<span> </span><br/> Zui Gi Sho Setsu — The Law according to the capacities<span> </span><br/> I Shu Nan Ge — Of all living beings a way that the intention is hard to understand<span> </span><br/> Shari Hotsu — Shariputra!<span> </span><br/> Go Ju Jo Butsu I Rai — Since I became Buddha, I also<span> </span><br/> Shu Ju In Nen — Have been stating various teachings<span> </span><br/> Shu Ju Hi Yu — With different stories of previous lives,<span> </span><br/> Ko En Gon Kuyo — Various parables, and various similes.<span> </span><br/> Mu Shu Ho Ben — I have been leading all living beings<span> </span><br/> In Do Shu Jo — With countless expedients<span> </span><br/> Ryo Ri Sho Jaku — In order to save them from materialism,<span> </span><br/> Sho I Sha Ga — Because I have the power<span> </span><br/> Nyo Rai Ho Ben — To employ skills,<span> </span><br/> Chi Ken Hara Mitsu — And the power to perform<span> </span><br/> Kai I Gu Soku — The Paramita (reached goal of wisdom) of insight<span> </span><br/> Shari Hotsu — Shariputra!<span> </span><br/> Nyo Rai Chi Ken —The insight of the Tathagatas<span> </span><br/> Ko Dai Jin Non — Is wide and deep.<span> </span><br/> Mu Ryo Mu Ge — They have all the [states of mind<span> </span><br/> Riki Mu Sho I — Towards] countless [living beings],<span> </span><br/> Zen Jo Ge Da's' San Mai — unchecked [intelligence], powers,<span> </span><br/> Jin Nyu Mu Sai — Fearlessness, dhyana-concentrations,<span> </span><br/> Jo Ju Is Sai — Liberations and samadhis. They entered<span> </span><br/> Mi Zo U Ho — Deep into no limits, and attained the Law which you've never heard before<span> </span><br/> Shari Hotsu — Shariputra!<span> </span><br/> Nyo Rai Nyo Shu Ju Fun Betsu —The Tathagatas divide the Law<span> </span><br/> Gyo Ses Sho Ho — Into various teachings, and state<span> </span><br/> Gon Ji Nyu Nan — Those teachings so gently and skillfully<span> </span><br/> Ek Ka Shu Shin — That living being are delighted.<span> </span><br/> Shari Hotsu — Shariputra!<span> </span><br/> Shu Yo Gon Shi — In short, the Buddhas attained<span> </span><br/> Mu Ryo Mu Hen — The countless teachings<span> </span><br/> Mi Zo U Ho — Which you've never heard before<span> </span><br/> Bus Shitsu Jo Ju — No more<span> </span><br/> Shi — Will I say<span> </span><br/> Shari Hotsu — Shariputra<span> </span><br/> Fu Shu Bu Setsu — Because the Law<span> </span><br/> Sho I Sha Ga — attained by the Buddhas<span> </span><br/> Bus Sho Jo Ju — Is the highest Truth.<span> </span><br/> Dai Ichi Ke U — Rare [to hear] and hard<span> </span><br/> Nan Ge Shi Ho —To understand.<span> </span><br/> Yui Butsu Yo Butsu — Only the Buddhas attained<span> </span><br/> Nai No Ku Jin — The highest Truth, that is<br/> Sho Ho Jis So — The Reality of All Things<span> </span><br/> Sho I Sho Ho — In regards to:<br/> Nyo Ze So — Their appearances (form? shape? size? ) as such,<span> </span><br/> Nyo Ze Sho — Thier natures (essence) as such,<span> </span><br/> Nyo Ze Tai — Their embodiments (present incarnation) as such,<span> </span><br/> Nyo Ze Riki — Their powers (potentiality also possibilities) as such,<span> </span><br/> Nyo Ze Sa — Their activities (function or role) as such,<span> </span><br/> Nyo Ze In — Their primary causes (obvious cause) as such,<span> </span><br/> Nyo Ze En — Their environmental causes (process) as such,<span> </span><br/> Nyo Ze Ka — Their effects (latent or hidden effect) as such,<span> </span><br/> Nyo Ze Ho — Their requital (final outcome or return) as such,<span> </span><br/> Nyo Ze Hon Ma' Ku Kyo To — And the combination of these [factors] as such (over and over again)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span>the central mantra chanted within all forms of Nichiren </span><b>Buddhism</b><span> as well as Tendai </span><b>Buddhism</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Nichiren declared that to chant <em>Nam</em>-<em>myoho</em>-<em>renge</em>-<em>kyo</em> was to activate its promise of universal enlightenment; he was establishing a form of practice that would open the way to enlightenment for all people--regardless of class or educational background.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>One of the 3 master mantras I chanted daily during my greatest period of life challenge & Awakening </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ as we come together in healing and awakening now en mass </strong><strong>I dedicate this blog to the Peace and Enlightenment of our World, and to the Conscious return to Love along with collective Reinstatement of the Feminine principle on Earth, to the protection and sacredness of all beings and all living things, and to the reforesting, restoration and honoring of our Earth Mother who gives so unfathomably unconditionally and provides all things to all beings, including our bodies, with such unfathomable miracle, grace, depth and love. (She is the True Mother who gives us all Life itself). </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>She provides and gives everything. ~ May She be Protected, Honored & Restored</strong></p>
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<p><em><a href="https://tinaturnerblog.com/2015/12/16/sound-of-mystic-law/">https://tinaturnerblog.com/2015/12/16/sound-of-mystic-law/</a></em></p>Shaman.Earth Meditationtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-06-06:2344239:BlogPost:981932017-06-06T15:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p>Step out onto the earth,<br></br> Let your feet push gently into the dirt<br></br> Close your eyes<br></br> Sit down.</p>
<p>Send your roots down, down, so far down.<br></br> deep into the Earth.<br></br> Send your…</p>
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<p>Step out onto the earth,<br/> Let your feet push gently into the dirt<br/> Close your eyes<br/> Sit down.</p>
<p>Send your roots down, down, so far down.<br/> deep into the Earth.<br/> Send your love into Her center.</p>
<p>As she receives your love, the Earth responds.</p>
<p>She sends you back a stream of<br/> bright bold deep green energy up from her core.</p>
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<p>Receive it.<br/> Up through your central shushumna channel.<br/> Slowly.<br/> Rising ounce by ounce.<br/> and continue the process until it flows up and out<br/> into the cosmos. <br/> Slowly now. <br/> And then settles back down and focuses steadily into you heart.<br/> Keep exchanging love with Mother Earth.</p>
<p>Now feel the Universe's energy entering down through your crown.<br/> from up in the heavens.<br/> Divine energy enters through the top of your head <br/> and spreads through your whole being and body like melting butter.<br/> From your crown, Divine golden energy flows through you<br/> and is sent all the way down into the earth, <br/> until it settles back up to rest and meet in your HeArt.</p>
<p>Let these two Mother energies meet in your heart,<br/> the Earth from below, the Divine from above.<br/> Let them fill every cell in your body and being,<br/> and even in between the in between spaces.<br/> Let these Energies fill and radiate out from within you,<br/> but only when It has completely filled you first.</p>
<p>Let Earth.Mother's green energy and<br/> Divine.Mother's golden-pinkish energy meet at<br/> the center of your Universe, in your heart, <br/> And fill and flood you and your physical body<br/> with healing, groundedness and nourishment <br/> for your life and soul.</p>
<p>It is a deep rich process. Allow slowly and steadily. <br/> Savor.<br/> There is no hurry.</p>
<p>You are the place where Heaven meets the Earth.</p>
<p>Live it.<br/> Breathe it.<br/> Know it.</p>
<p>~ Namaste</p>
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<p>with gratitude and love to the indigenous people, teachers and leaders of this earth, and to my personal teacher don Miguel Ruiz and apprenticeship years with don Miguel Ruiz, HeatherAsh and Raven Smith</p>
<p>July 2, 2015</p>
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<p><em>reposting from July 2015</em></p>
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</div>Words from a Love Activisttag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-06-01:2344239:BlogPost:1040832017-06-01T11:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>WORDS FROM A LOVE ACTIVIST</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>And the Truth is... Love.</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>If it's not Love, it's not the Truth.…</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>And the Truth is... Love.</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>If it's not Love, it's not the Truth.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj">Love risks everything</div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>No matter how soft and tender it feels on the inside of the rage against injustice and suffering</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>Annihilation</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>Love is the Creed of the Spiritual Warrior</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>The beloved Archangel</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>The fierce Mother</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>The Bohdisattva heart & vow & soul</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>Love may not be the norm yet in this world</span></div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj">But it is growing</div>
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<div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>And it is the only thing</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">And the Truth is... Love.</span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj"><div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">If it's not Love, it's not the Truth.</span></div>
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</div>Awakening to Ourselves as Nature - and Intelligent Treestag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-05-04:2344239:BlogPost:1084852017-05-04T16:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p>Like many empaths, I've always felt and been sensitive to the energy and love of trees. Since working with and studying with<span> …</span></p>
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<p>Like many empaths, I've always felt and been sensitive to the energy and love of trees. Since working with and studying with<span> </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FTreesisters.org%2F&h=ATOgpf9ph-ZWwJi3GglZcdgJBX8sc-VV1uOPAWrV_-WmnonHbMb480lu-Ko5Ue8BXAwSvHaoAnmLkNNnJ0EL0JY7ELheTdA9raSd1mxYXbzrd7s8eplDyfNg5dqidHX3z8qiUQG7bEbW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Tree<span class="text_exposed_show">sisters.org </span></a>I have learned more intricately about how trees communicate with each other and the collectively accepted validity and societal normalization of the extraordinary energetic experiences that I and many empaths, shamanics and other spiritually in-tuned intutivies have in nature throughout our lives.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://mysticalraven.com/news/2934/study-finds-trees-have-feelings-make-friends-and-look-after-each-other-like-an-old-couple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Study Find Trees Have Feelings, Make Friends and Look After Each Other</a></p>
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</div>FORGIVENESS, SELF LOVE, PERSONAL POWER & THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSONtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-05-04:2344239:BlogPost:1099852017-05-04T14:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<div style="text-align: left;">In the simplest of definition, forgiveness is just letting it go. But self care - self love - must also accompany forgiveness in order to find the relief you seek from hurt, anger and suffering. You may need to forgive yourself and walk away from harmful toxic people in order to experience lasting peace and wellbeing, the ultimate gifts of letting it go. </div>
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</div>Gayatri Mantra for the Earthtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-04-18:2344239:BlogPost:1080822017-04-18T13:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p>Thought I'd share some chanting and tree planting news. </p>
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<p>Thought I'd share some chanting and tree planting news. </p>
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<p></p>Heading into Dreaming Season , Winter 2015tag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-03-29:2344239:BlogPost:1517882017-03-29T13:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div><div>This will be my last Awakened Journey blog post which is actually long overdue as the Feminine force of re-creation has certainly been having her way with us and just about everything during the past several years, hasn't She? </div>
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<div><div><div>In our world today we call for global sanity, change and healing and have rocky days ahead yet, but what a momentous time to be alive. May the courageous healing work we have completely or continue individually and collectively support the collective and personal benefit of all. As we continue to pray and envision and act towards the rebirthing and awakening of our earth and world and protection for all sentient beings and our earth herself, let us remember to call often upon the sacredness of all things. And celebrate the beauty, it is everywhere. Just keep looking and looking, just keep looking again until you see it. In deepest compassion for All, the Awakened Soul, Thank you for travelling with me. </div>
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<div>In love and in Lak'Ech</div>
<div>I am another you</div>
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<div><div><i>Alexa Ashikia*eagle~feather , </i><i>the name the dolphins and the Earth mother gave me </i></div>
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<div><div><strong style="color: #993300;">A prayer for our World</strong><span style="color: #993300;">. It needs it so deeply right now. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>Oh, Eagle, come with wings</em></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>outspread in sunny skies.</em></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>Oh, Eagle, come and bring us</em></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>peace, thy gentle peace.</em></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>Oh, Eagle, come and give</em></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>new life to us who pray.</em></strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>Remember the circle of the sky,</em></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>the stars, and the brown eagle,</em></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>the great life of the Sun</em></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>the young within the nest.</em></strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>Remember the </em></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>Sacredness of All Things</em></strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #993300;"><em>Pawnee Prayer / Oh Eagle</em></span></div>
<div><br/> <span style="color: #000000;">photo: Roy Handcliff @Barclay Media google.images</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #000000;">above photo: Teotihuacan, Mexico - Pyramid of the Sun </span></div>
</div>Signing off ~ Beauty in this World & A Practice for Youtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-03-29:2344239:BlogPost:1035852017-03-29T11:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p style="text-align: center;">Keep these words in mind.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Only Consciousness is Real (Love).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">All else <em>is</em> .. illusion…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Keep these words in mind.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Only Consciousness is Real (Love).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">All else <em>is</em> .. illusion (aka impermanent).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Ours is a world in undeniable crisis</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But there are millions of joining people coming together too</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in unprecedented numbers from every corner of the globe</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">standing and gathering together for justice truth and sanity,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">lifting our collective voice with intent to usher in a new and natural order</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">that honors life over profit</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">humanity over fear and prejudice</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and respect honor and decency over ignorance, patriarchy and egoic mass destruction.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We are called upon and enacting for the reinstatement of the Feminine Principles & Presence</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">to heal and balance a world that has been lost in patriarchal degradation</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and self annihilation without Her</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">There is an Awakening going on on this Planet</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But you know that</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">As we travel forward through this maze of haze and unfathomable reflections,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">though days may overwhelm and nights may pass restlessly in disbelief and heightened concern,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">you can care for your empathic truth-seeking nervous system and resonant heart</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">By settling your breath, going within, and by remembering why you have come.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You were made for these moments, though it will feel for awhile like anything but.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Remember this practice when you need to take back your power and mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">from an imbalanced patriarchal old dream that is breaking apart at its seams</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It can set you free</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>(even and especially in the darkest of times)</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; color: #993300;">Look for the beauty in the world</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; color: #993300;">Look for the beauty in the world.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; color: #993300;">Just keep looking and looking . Just keep looking until you see it.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; color: #993300;"><strong style="font-size: 10pt;"><span>~Rama</span></strong></span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">signing off feeling wobbly with what we are approaching in the united states of america</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and around the world tonite</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">yet in gratitude to the All for the profound blessing and gift that it is</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">to be incarnated at this exciting and critical moment, the Potential for the Great Turnaround on planet Earth</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In the Great Experiment of human free will</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">of and with the love of the sacred living-breathing Soul we know as Mother, Earth</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(Her love is beyond comprehension)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">with hope for the love of the collective Soul of the world </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and to The Awakened Feminine Heart</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I'm signing off site looking into Beauty and In Lak'Ech,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">"I Am <em>(as "we" and "they" all are)</em> another You"</p>
<p>Jan 20 . 2017</p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943588?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943588?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-left" width="252" height="252"/></a>Being a sensitive person can be a confusing, complicated thing in this still harsh world. It feels intuitively right to open, to feel, to enhearten our daily life, but the world is still vibrating at a more armored and edgy place. It is not yet attuned to the ways of the open heart. So what to do? We don’t want to deaden our capacity to feel, but if we feel too much, we get run over by an often heartless world. I have found my best answer in three places...</p>
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<p>Selective Attachme<span class="text_exposed_show">nt: carefully discerning between positive and negative individuals and environments, and only attaching to those people and places that can hold our tender heart safe;</span></p>
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<p><span class="text_exposed_show">Strong Energetic Boundaries: being physically and emotionally charged, so that we can more effectively repel unwelcome energies;</span></p>
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<p><span class="text_exposed_show">Conscious Armoring: learning how to put on armor when necessary to manage the world and difficult situations, and, consciously removing it when it is no longer needed.</span></p>
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<p><span class="text_exposed_show">If we cultivate these practices, we stand a much better chance of preserving our sensitivity. Once we lose it, we lose our connection to the moment altogether. Here’s to a sensitive way of being! What a courageous path...</span></p>
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<p>Excerpt: 'Spiritual Graffiti' by Jeff Brown</p>
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</div>MY LOVING CONTRIBUTIONS ON SPIRITUAL HEALTHtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-03-29:2344239:BlogPost:1044922017-03-29T01:40:11.000ZEzequiel Rodr{iguezhttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/EzequielRodriguez
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<p>FEB.22.’13<br></br>This humble contribution seeks to cast some light on the topic of integral health. Please keep in mind I am at your service. I perform this sacred service with a loving attitude towards you.<br></br>As I write these words I experience a wonderful spiritual enjoyment, a great privilege to be able to aid you.<br></br>As a…</p>
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<p>FEB.22.’13<br/>This humble contribution seeks to cast some light on the topic of integral health. Please keep in mind I am at your service. I perform this sacred service with a loving attitude towards you.<br/>As I write these words I experience a wonderful spiritual enjoyment, a great privilege to be able to aid you.<br/>As a spiritual healer, I am about to express my convictions and experience on some patients suffering from an unbalance of their body, mind, and soul connection.<br/>I’ve been asked several times to help human beings of all walks of life. We, spiritual healers, treat illnesses and all sickness as the lost of balance in our integral being. In my country; México there has always been a common ritual called: barridas (sweeps), also known as AURA CLEANSING. This ritual uses several ingredients: eggs, lemons or odorous herbs. I use my own special vibrated water. Most times I’ve used distant healing techniques using any chatting facility various times. First the patient and I pray together. Other times when the patient is unable to do this, a patient’s relative prays with me. Of course that there are other steps to be followed in order to become reliable healing channels coming from the divine world.<br/>Regarding aura cleansings what I don’t like happening in my beloved country is that this habit is disappearing because modern Mexican people consider it something carried out by ignorant people. By ignorant I mean human beings who lack formal education, but who have received oral teachings from their relatives, as you might know, there are still many modern Mexican people who descend from wise Indians. They are known as “chamanes”<br/>To us, participating in such rituals as patients or healers has proven been very helpful because our imbalance can bee easily stopped or detected in what we call the first stage in our health recovery. At this stage, it is vital to have our energy field (aura) been cleaned several times. Other activities include reading some famous self-help books or to talk to our priest, even to make meditation a daily habit. Other suggested activities are to listen to classical music, mantra chanting even to perform some chakra activation exercises. To swallow some sun light two hours before noon, to drink a lot of water and to become passive. On the seconds phase, it is recommended to become active spiritual seekers. On the third stage, it is required a much more in depth enrollment using guided relaxation and meditation. Also reading THE BIBLE will be an excellent idea. Here by using our intuition we will open THE BOOK at random manner on order to find the appropriate spiritual message.<br/>Thank God none of my wife’s family members neither my relatives has suffered from serious illness. As an ESL instructor, almost all my students have had a relative suffering from cancer. Looking at the great worries reflected on my students’ faces made me do some research on this topic. What you are about to read took me about a dozen years of searching in several well-known medical journals including alternative medicine.<br/>Spiritual healers consider the first stage; when the imbalance is not detected by medical studies due to it hasn’t been crystallized in a physical or psychic manner. This not harmonious affection is at a spiritual level. The second stage is also nondetectable using modern science, but a person’s imbalance is easily detected by a sensitive person because it is now manifesting at a psychic level. The third stage is when medical science is able to measure the damage done in a person's body.</p>
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</div>MPROVING OUR PHYSICAL BODY AND MENTAL PROCESSES WITH THE IMAGIN-ACTION METHODOLOGYtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-03-29:2344239:BlogPost:1046952017-03-29T01:38:00.000ZEzequiel Rodr{iguezhttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/EzequielRodriguez
<p><span>I</span><br></br><span>Posted by Ezequiel Rodiguez on June 30, 2012, at 1:41 pm</span><br></br><span>Send Message View Blog</span><br></br><span>June/30/’12</span><br></br><span>The man has always striven to become a much better version of himself. He only needs something very reliable to aid him in this sacred endeavor. Mystics worldwide and at all ages have seen a human being as an integral self-composed of a harmoniously integrated being: soul, mind, and body.…</span></p>
<p><span>I</span><br/><span>Posted by Ezequiel Rodiguez on June 30, 2012, at 1:41 pm</span><br/><span>Send Message View Blog</span><br/><span>June/30/’12</span><br/><span>The man has always striven to become a much better version of himself. He only needs something very reliable to aid him in this sacred endeavor. Mystics worldwide and at all ages have seen a human being as an integral self-composed of a harmoniously integrated being: soul, mind, and body.</span><span class="text_exposed_show"><br/>God, our Maker has already given us everything<br/>We can see and wonder how our physical body improves with exercise, a healthy diet, and the proper thoughts. The improvement of our minds is a little more difficult to be fully appreciated. Ah! Our spirit, however, is indeed a blessing. Our soul personality can achieve miracles in both our bodies and our minds because it’s always followed unchangeable cosmic laws from the beginning of times in a subconscious manner. The secret sought for so long time is indeed very simple; it is like learning a second language, so far there haven’t been reliable methods<br/>for us to accomplish this. Since the year two thousand and seven my goal has been to interchange with my peers, serious spiritual seekers, tips, formulas which have worked for us, so I’ve decided to bring out the best of my mental-spiritual experiences had by our spiritual beings throughout thousand of years living on this planet and also in our spiritual mansions. It is a very strong conviction that we, who think alike, are needed by our world! I am humbly sharing over fifty-two years of wonderful experiences in this lifetime and many millennia as I like yourselves we all became beautiful living souls.<br/>I’m eager to listen to each one of your experiences. One of the many gifts God gave was to know the attributes, skills, and gifts of human beings. During fifty-two years I have been able to help out about three dozen people in my community. This golden opportunity has allowed me to offer you a year long course of self-development; there are just forty-eight<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943586?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943586?profile=original" width="340" class="align-left"/></a> lessons and four exams in this course. <br/>I thank you from the core of this always loving spiritual heart!<br/>Ezequiel Rodríguez Salivar</span></p>AMORIFER-ALDEN’S FOUR DYNAMIC ACTIONS: READING, STUDYING, THINKING, AND CREATINGtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-03-29:2344239:BlogPost:1046922017-03-29T01:35:00.000ZEzequiel Rodr{iguezhttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/EzequielRodriguez
<p style="text-align: center;"><span>˜”*°• ❁▽❁ </span><span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v8/f6c/1/16/2764.png" width="16"></img> <span class="_7oe">❤</span></span><span>•°*”˜ •°*</span><br></br><span>AMORIFER-ALDEN’S FOUR DYNAMIC ACTIONS:</span><br></br><span>READING, STUDYING, THINKING, AND CREATING</span><br></br><span>To me, any self-taught human being develops reliable mental maps without intention. This is what occurred to me, first at age ten years old was the starting point of departure of becoming an avid reader for fifty-two years, and…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span>˜”*°• ❁▽❁ </span><span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img class="img" height="16" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v8/f6c/1/16/2764.png" width="16" alt=""/><span class="_7oe">❤</span></span><span>•°*”˜ •°*</span><br/><span>AMORIFER-ALDEN’S FOUR DYNAMIC ACTIONS:</span><br/><span>READING, STUDYING, THINKING, AND CREATING</span><br/><span>To me, any self-taught human being develops reliable mental maps without intention. This is what occurred to me, first at age ten years old was the starting point of departure of becoming an avid reader for fifty-two years, and then suddenly a deep profound realization illuminated my mind and heart. I said to myself: “Divide your readings into just four categories”: Philosophy</span><span class="text_exposed_show">, Universal History, Art, and Science, so I chose just one book on each of these subjects. I don’t really recall how much time I spent using different approaches to be able to create<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943597?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943597?profile=original" width="500" class="align-full"/></a> my own versions of such books. The memory approach became boring, then the comprehension approach made it possible to substitute words, but it was until I used the imagination approach that did the job perfectly. This approach is like the element WATER; it flows without apparent effort. Suddenly my Integral-Self was ready for the Divine Approach of Creativity! It took me to the EUREKA SUBLIME MANIFESTATION.<br/>The analogy that comes to my mind is the following:<br/>Reading made appreciate Life and Nature at ninety degrees, studying widened the scope to one hundred and eighty degrees, thinking close the learning circle at three hundred and sixty degrees, including beautiful humanity. The creative approach drove my thoughts to be able to add four perspective high planes. The view is breathtaking! <br/>Each one of us eventually will reach the great blessing of becoming AN INSTRUCTOR, a reliable life’s Guide, what now is called a coach.</span></p>When We Go to the Earthtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-03-03:2344239:BlogPost:1031062017-03-03T14:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943148?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943148?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="154"></img></a> <strong>WHEN WE GO TO THE EARTH</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">We are shaman. When we need healing we go to the earth.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">When we pray for our world and each other we…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">We are shaman. When we need healing we go to the earth.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">When we pray for our world and each other we go to the earth.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">When we feel called into gratitude to the one who sustains and provides for us, the one who gives everything we need to live & sustain our lives - our bodies, sustenance, nourishment, shelter, balance and more, everything - and we wish to bow to God and to Her, we go and bow to the Earth.</span></p>
<div class="text_exposed_show"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">When we gather to dance and sing, to grieve, to cry or to celebrate our blessing, we go to the earth.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="verdana, geneva">And as I journeyed on to find a mother I had needed but not yet found, to mend my broken childhood heart,</font></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">When my personal journey for a mother figure who would receive and respond and protect me, and support the nurture my soul, </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">something I had not known before in female form,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">when that search was finally over,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">after many painful lamenting moons,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">through many long cold seasons and cycles,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">I finally did find her.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">I found her. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">And she restored me.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">She is the Earth.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">And then I found her too, within myself. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>1.3.16 </em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 8pt;">These simple reflections are dedicated to the restoration and protection </span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 8pt;">of our magnificent and life-giving living </span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 8pt;">breathing sacred Mother </span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 8pt;">Earth.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 8pt;">May humanity evolve to become a restorer species </span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 8pt;">rather than a consuming one.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 8pt;">And may we learn collectively to honor the earth's divinity.</span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 8pt;">She is a living soul. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><font color="#808080"><span style="font-size: 10.6667px;">I respectfully honor my teacher don Miguel Ruize for leading me home to myself through 13 years of intensive and beautiful shedding to self realization. I am eternally grateful. From Czech healer roots I respectfully honor the teachers, land, holding, wisdom & medicine held throughout time by the great indigenous people & nations here in the United States and around the world. Thank you all of my teachers. </span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font-size-1">Tree of Wisdom , Grandmother Earth - artist unknown</span></em></p>
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</div>5 Practices to Heal Anxiety and Rewire Thinking Patterns - by Om Timestag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-01-21:2344239:BlogPost:1090892017-01-21T15:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
<p>Following is an article by OmTimes Magazine - For More Visit <a href="https://omtimes.com/2016/06/heal-panic-attacks-anxiety/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">OmTimes</a> </p>
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<p><em>Do you suffer from anxiety or panic attacks?</em></p>
<p><strong>by Dr. Paul Haider</strong></p>
<p>Panic attacks and anxiety are very common. People have so much going on that cause many challenges. Over time, those challenges can develop into panic attacks and anxiety. But here are a few spiritual ways heal and feel great again.</p>
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<h2>1. Breathing Techniques Ease Panic Attacks and Anxiety</h2>
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<li><strong>Square Breathing:</strong><span> </span>Simple breathing-in slowly for the count of four, holding that breath for the count of four, and then breathing out over the count of four is a great breathing technique that is very good for calming the mind and body.</li>
<li><strong>24 Mega Breaths:</strong><span> </span>Just breathing in a mega breath-one, large, deep breath and slowly letting it out, and doing this 24 times, is a technique many find is simpler than square breathing. For many people, it works wonders, and this process also helps a person to relax enough so they can get to sleep and wake up refreshed. Also, once the body starts to relax, all the stored-up muscle tension in their neck will start to relax, cramps start to disappear, and tension headaches and even migraines start to fade away.</li>
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<h2>2. Correct Imbalance to Heal Panic Attacks and Anxiety</h2>
<p><strong>Limbic System Imbalance:</strong><span> </span>On average, many of us overthink everything, and most of this thinking has nothing to do with what we are working on or the events that are taking place. Thus, we have hundreds of thousands of thoughts that run through our head daily. Many of these are negative thoughts, which create a critical imbalance of hormones in our brain’s limbic system. Once we start thinking positive thoughts, our hormone imbalance corrects itself and we start to feel peaceful again. This is true science and the answer to correcting this challenge is simple.</p>
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<h2>3. Change Thoughts to Heal Panic Attacks and Anxiety</h2>
<p><strong>Negating Negative Thoughts:</strong><span> </span>There is a psychological and spiritual process which helps to balance our brain’s limbic system. When a person has negative thoughts running through their mind, it’s important to write down that thought and then refute that kind of thinking with a positive answer. For example, “Today is going to be terrible,” and then writing down, “Yesterday was great and today will also be great.” In essence, changing the way we think. This practice slowly aligns ourselves with positive thoughts and letting go of all negative thinking. It is a process that takes time, but with practice, our limbic system starts to heal. We start to hear the still small voice of God, which is the positive voice within.</p>
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<h2>4. Positive Ways to Heal Panic Attacks and Anxiety</h2>
<p><strong>Seeing the Good in All Things:</strong><span> </span>As with thoughts, it is very easy to look at other things in life and see the bad that might come from it. With practice, this can change to become a person who has a positive mindset! Everything that happens in life has good and bad that spreads from that one single point in time.</p>
<p>It may take years for the good to come about, but eventually, the good does override the negative in life. This is called “God Mind,” and it is about seeing the good that will come from everything. If we train our mind to have the focused hope and belief that something good will come from a negative event, we start balancing our brain’s limbic system and start feeling good again.</p>
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<h2>5. Fill the Mind with God to Heal Panic Attacks and Anxiety</h2>
<p><strong>Saying the Name of God Over and Over Again:</strong><span> </span>Start silently saying a personal name of God over and over again. It might be Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, or any other name, but it needs to be more personal than just “God.” Whenever the mind is not being used for some specific purpose, fill the mind with the name of God. I have seen great miracles happen when people start filling their mind with the name of God instead of incessant thinking. This technique brings about a peace beyond words… perhaps that best word that might be used to describe it is “grace.”</p>
<p>These five simple techniques can make all the difference in the world when it comes to healing panic attacks and anxiety.</p>
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<h2>About the Author</h2>
<p>Paul Haider is a spiritual teacher and master herbalist for over 25 years. Find Dr. Haider on Facebook under “Dr. Paul Haider, Healing Herbs,” at the Shambala Spiritual Transformation Institute, his WordPress blog,<span> </span><em>“Relax Into Success,”</em><span> </span>and at<span> </span><a href="http://www.paulhaider.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.paulhaider.com</a>. Feel free to contact him anytime.</p>
</div>Preparing for Winter Solstice - Transitioning from Old to Newtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-01-19:2344239:BlogPost:995082017-01-19T21:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p style="text-align: center;">Preparing for Winter Solstice ~ Transitioning from Old to New</p>
<p>I spent the day on Wednesday cleansing the entire home with sage and palo santo. The weather was mild so all windows were open and…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Preparing for Winter Solstice ~ Transitioning from Old to New</p>
<p>I spent the day on Wednesday cleansing the entire home with sage and palo santo. The weather was mild so all windows were open and it felt... wonderful! The spices from my offerings smelled good too.</p>
<p>I also spent slow magical time inviting in New Energies with a four directions blessings, anchored in the Present moment (and fresh new conscious energy, we and our world need us to stay Here) and offered some gifts for the approaching Solstice. My ceremony lasted a near hour, and after a long deep year of dancing with the fires of Kali through a rather profound annual of inner work and clearing out some of the most tender sacred cobwebs from a new perspective, I feel I've come to stand in an entirely new and transformed space with certain traumatic events from my life, deep medicine, and have let go of some old patterns and greater family paradigms too. It feels .. great. And in the process I created an altar mandala supporting the shared collective call post-clearing for Conscious Love, Forgiveness & Peace on Earth.</p>
<p>It is clearly a time to let go (Let Go) - of something that was once a teacher, but is now a thread of gold . The practice/intention today remains, to rest, to breathe freely, and to Be Here Now. </p>
<p>Here's a wonderful piece from The Power Path today with a simple release ceremony that you can build and follow. We are all on the same wavelength it seems once again. And it is such a wonderful time to let go. As we are met by the cross configuration of Solstice.</p>
<p>Enjoy ~ ~~ </p>
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<p>Winter Solstice is Monday, December 21 at 9:49PM MST</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2"><em>PowerPath:</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Dear Friends,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080; font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2">This is the darkest time, the still point that marks the TRANSITION from dark to light. It is a fitting image for our times as the conscious collective holds a container for the planet to move more into the light through compassion and love. Forgiveness would be an excellent theme for this Solstice. Forgiving yourself, others and all our relations on the planet for all the karmic debt that we have individually and collectively carried throughout history and other lifetimes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080; font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2">There is enough energy in the new platform to accomplish this. It is important to do something around this solstice time frame. Create a ritual, or do a renewal process, some intention setting and lots of prayer. Although this solstice is not necessarily an easy time, it is a powerful time and if you use it well it can jump start your year in a positive way.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080; font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2">Here is a suggestion for a ritual to do around this solstice time.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Make an offering that you can either burn or bury of something written or drawn on a piece of paper folded up. You can add symbolic objects, photos, incense, sage, and decorations. Tie it up or just fold the paper around your offering. Say a prayer where you ask the Spirit of the WEST and Pacha Mama to receive that which you are letting go of, leaving behind and completing on this solstice. Breathe all the energy and emotions connected to your release into your offering and then bury or burn it, releasing it to spirit. Make sure to include great gratitude for all the lessons, wisdom and growth you acquired over the past year. Include forgiveness and compassion for yourself and for others.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080; font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2">Once you do a ritual like this it is important to fill the new space with something fresh and new. You may not know what that is yet, but you can symbolize it with flowers, beauty, love and joy. And for those who do know exactly what you wish to bring in, write it, or draw it and place it on an altar or in a place where you can honor it daily as you move</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080; font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2">Note: for those of you on the other side of the equator, your solstice is a summer one. The same ritual can apply as it is a powerful time to transition from one aspect of your life to another.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080; font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2">The Power Path</span></p>
<p><a href="http://thepowerpath.com/the-power-path/">http://thepowerpath.com/the-power-path/</a></p>
<p>..</p>Sprouting Self Love ~ Is It Time for A Self-Talk Spring Clean-Up?tag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-01-18:2344239:BlogPost:1080102017-01-18T17:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p>Sprouting Self Love ~ Is It Time for A Self-Talk Spring Clean-Up?</p>
<p>There is so much negatively impacting us and our world right now, so much pressure and crisis and clean up we are are attempting and clamoring towards and facing both individually and collectively. As empaths it can feel just plain overwhelming. Empaths want to address and fix and save and fix it…</p>
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<p>Sprouting Self Love ~ Is It Time for A Self-Talk Spring Clean-Up?</p>
<p>There is so much negatively impacting us and our world right now, so much pressure and crisis and clean up we are are attempting and clamoring towards and facing both individually and collectively. As empaths it can feel just plain overwhelming. Empaths want to address and fix and save and fix it ALL right now. Because cruelty, destruction of the sacred, and unkind things can feel unbearable to our sensitive nervous systems and souls. Sometimes our sensitive systems can barely take it. So what does this have to do with our self talk?</p>
<p><span>The connection is that while we are being negatively impacted by events or energies in the world it can be especially easy to get ourselves caught in the vortex of clamoring for perfection and change and trying to be so ... well, perfect. It puts us into a stress response that is hardly easy on our health, and that can affect our self-talk thinking too. Because perfection doesn't exist (except in the Absolute) we must remain mindful of our pacing and reality. And just like the world cannot meet our expectations and wishes as empaths, we must realize that we cannot meet our own expectations as human beings either. Let's face it, we can be as hard on ourselves and others as we are on the world, both harming our health and impacting our elevated hsp stress levels which we already have to manage with more self care and attention than most. So. What can we do?</span></p>
<p>For starters we can reduce empathic stress levels by stalking (a toltec word for hunting like a jaguar) our negative self-talk, and turning it around by increasing our inner self-love talk. Doesn't that feel good already? I'll give you an example:</p>
<p>As I stalked my inner messaging system for just a couple of days this week (the voice of my own inner critic) I noticed immediately that one of my regular self criticism go-to's is: I'm so weird. I say it gently and under my breath. But it can be accompanied by a real heartfelt feeling of empathic torture and pain. I've noticed that I say it to myself quite a lot in fact. I said it this week after meeting a new group of women (I wondered if I'm too much or whether I really fit in - which is an interesting turn of phrase as well. do I "fit"? Is there enough space for the real me to show up?), or perhaps when editing things I write or share to unnecessary regard (I love to edit, I used to be a video film editor), and I say it when I repeat things to my sweetheart husband too many times (I have a family history of not being heard, so sometimes I have to be sure!) plus.. I'm "unusually deep and reflective" and feel "too much" or "too deeply" according to some of the less sensitive folks from my past (past being the operative word), although I am finding the world increasingly opening up to awareness around the sensitivity and spiritual sensory experience (all common traits and experiences we empaths often deal with). In any case I've started this new practice of answering and rewiring my inner critic and taking back my voice and power in a fine tuning kind of way too. and you know what? It feels great, has immediate results, and is really working to manage and calm and even rewire my sensitive hsp system. At this important time of potent and intensive collective shift, expansion and contraction, it is updrading my circuitry too.</p>
<p>Now when my inner critic tells me something like I'm too weird, I say: "Yes! I'm weird, and deep, and passionately creative and thoughtful to a fault sometimes, and I'm learning to hold and expand and honor that in healthy present ways. I love that about me." And I walk away happy and free. And go on with my day in alignment and blooming self love. I'm going to keep it up.</p>
<p>Give it a try. Stalk yourself and notice a common phrase you repeat about yourself in a negative way. Then talk back to it, turn it around with a radical Truth of Who You Truly Are. Speak the answer back right out loud. And re-wire that pattern and thought with some<span> </span><a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bloomingselflove?source=feed_text"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">BloomingSelfLove</span></span></a>.</p>
<p>It's a great easy practice for growing new sprouts of Joy for this Spring! Enjoy.</p>
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<p><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cm">reposted from spring 2016</span></span></p>Metamorphose? Dissoulution? Reconfiguration? Summer of 2015, reflections and astrologytag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2017-01-16:2344239:BlogPost:987632017-01-16T01:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943207?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943207?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="440"></img></a> Metamorphosis? Dissolution? Reconfiguration? Transfiguration, anyone?</p>
<p>It's been a rich and potent couple of months with a gentle touch as Venus went retrograde late July nudging us into another sweet supportive dive into persephones shadows (our core issues) with the promise of emerging faithfully in bright rebirth around the 18th and a…</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943207?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="440" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/72943207?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="440" class="align-center"/></a>Metamorphosis? Dissolution? Reconfiguration? Transfiguration, anyone?</p>
<p>It's been a rich and potent couple of months with a gentle touch as Venus went retrograde late July nudging us into another sweet supportive dive into persephones shadows (our core issues) with the promise of emerging faithfully in bright rebirth around the 18th and a completion of this cycle on Sept. 6.</p>
<p>The night of the Perseids Meteor Shower I was moved (in no uncertain terms) to perform a dissolution fire ceremony on my earth and into and just beyond the midnight hour. (then I rested.) 2 days later I am still feeling in that re-member-ing yet still partly altered state of reconfigurartion <span>where renewal of the physical/cellular and vibrational structure and deep energetic</span> restructuring and reordering occurs. It is a slow ongoing process to be honored; and the beautiful image I have of the reconfiguartion process was not unlike a fetus being formed anew in the dark red and black mysterious void of the mother's womb, where within the soft dark mysterious and intelligent (loving) living sacred fluid of the Her space (a veritable potent universe of creation), and with the stillness and precision of a Wisdom (and Love) greater than we can imagine, new cells and even functioning organs and systems are formed and fashioned, miraculously, into a tiny functioning universe of its own. A bodyworker who supported my process this week shared this insight around the same: when our new bodies are grown, maybe a tiny liver is fashioned first in the darkness, a mystery as it grows in the void, later a beating heart and a lung, in tiny precise increments and movement. It was such a beautiful visual, and not unlike a living musical symphony, being guided by something so vast and highly Intelligent (Love) from seemingly no-thing in a vast void or grander universe of liquid darkness and love, the shapeless shaping dance of literal Creation Itself. Life is such a miracle! I took this visual into and from my recent ceremony as all was offered and dismembered from the past, including these bones and this body, and a new form and energetic structure was reordered and rebuilt. It was quite the ritual.</p>
<p>Reflecting on this potent week and ceremony I was reminded of the butterfly again, transfigured first into and then out of liquid without agenda. but with the mystery and miracle of a Divinely inspired and Intelligent Creative Force, from one form into a new form previously unknown and even unheard of. This is the great Mystery of the Unknown, and of Her, the Feminine Force and Way, that I have been trying to express (and failing miserably at) for the past couple months.</p>
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<p>Shamanic Dissolution Ceremonies are performed at moments and junctures of death and rebirth, when something, some phase, a core relationship, (with self or another), life issue, pattern, or story/history/herstory is ending, and ready for the breakdown life/death/life cycle (and composting) of falling away, dismemberment, death and REBIRTH (with any type of death there is always a Rebirth) cycle in a powerful way. Many of us are experiencing these movements and experiences at this momentous cosmic 2015 summer juncture.</p>
<p>Dissolution (and reconfiguration) ceremony is optimally performed during the waning (decreasing) moon cycle, after the full moon has peaked and just before the New Moon rises(the new moon seeding thus carrying forward the momentum of the creative energy). but it can be performed any time a person feels called deeply to die to an old aspect of self at a more profound symbolic and completed level, and rest wholly in the process of beginning the slow but mystical (and sometimes mythical) process of reconfiguring a new and newly formed way of being, living, personhood, and even sometimes physical, body, personality and life.</p>
<p>more on shamanic dissoul-ution (there's that typo again), reconfiguration, transfiguration and Feminine-guided Shamanic practices coming soon.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">In the meantime, and especially perhaps as a Leo Lady, I feel deep joy and blessings that these profound and loving, and deep and dedicated, (I mean let's face it, this has not been easy work, now, either, has it? This challenging difficult and so often uncomfortable healing and transformative path and processes of the warrior or the Angel-on-Earth soul at this momentous time), and/but I am feeling so held and blessed that these cosmic collective movements are occurring so potently now, during our summer season here in the northern hem. It is prime time and weather too, with our still long and warmer sound-filled evenings (can you hear the full-fledged croaking of cicadas and sweet music of vast cricket colonies where you live? What summer night sounds can you hear?) to camp out on the land and spend long nights under the starry active sweet and mythical skies. If you feel called to sit on the earth, rest your head or full body offering on her great and grounding belly, put your ear to the Earth to hear/feel her message (such love and unconditional support and sustenance She provides), rest, let go, breathe and let gooo... now is the time. En~joy. Shared reflections for today. <3 </p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">[REPRINTED FROM AN EARLIER POST IN AUG 2015]</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">post script: I am always wondering if/when this will be my last blogpost on the Awakened Journey site. This has been a time long coming, as many of you know, for quite some while actually, as She has certainly been having Her way with us and just about <i>Everything</i> at this collective herstoric juncture, hasn't She? I am truly in her possession (gratefully). And all is being offered to the Wind. (professional coaching and shamanic work? more personal healings? memoir? other published writing? womens temple? storytelling, healing and sacred circle with various focuses on an online/virtual level? deeper personal inquiry with all is being seeded and re-evaluated). </p>
<p>In the meantime, although we will stay open as a community home-base to be shared, utilized or revisisted at any time, I am feeling that this may well be my last Awakened Journey community post. I am knowing it is time. And yet, parting is (still) such sweet sorrow. I will be in sacred retreat / 21-day Sadhanna with the Goddess KaliMa in just a few weeks. So we will see what this surrender into the fires of Kali may bring forth and be~come. </p>
<p>In this meantime, blessings are being sent out at this time to each of us and all of our relations, as you too may surely be stepping into, if even on some tender level, a newly Rebirthed You. </p>
<p>Please keep in touch on Fb as new offerings are being seeded and revealed. and in this continuing and ever evolving potential Grand Reordering of the Ways ...Thank you for sharing your Awakened Journey. See you in a new form soon! love and ~ ~ ~ ~ Namaste ~*~ </p>
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<p></p>7 Tips to Cope with the Challenges of High Sensitivitytag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2016-08-18:2344239:BlogPost:1044892016-08-18T13:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p>Have you ever said to yourself:</p>
<p><em>I’m tired of being hurt and let down by other people. How can I be less sensitive?</em></p>
<p>Maybe you feel like you give a lot to other people but they don’t return your thoughtfulness. You care so much, but others don’t notice. You can’t trust many people because they will inevitably hurt you or let you down. Your empathy weighs heavily on you. It’s all so tiring. How can you deal?</p>
<p>Here are some strategies that may help you cope.</p>
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<li><strong>Remember<em>, you</em></strong><strong> are the only one who can make <em>you</em> happy. </strong>Think about the way you talk to yourself in your head. Are you nice? Or are you critical and unforgiving? <em>Would you talk to other people the way you talk to yourself?</em> Be gentle. Give yourself a break. Being compassionate and empathetic to the world comes naturally; we have to train ourselves to use that same compassion to ourselves.</li>
<li><strong>Identify the things that drain you and avoid them (within reason.) </strong>Maybe you are drained by watching violent or emotional TV shows or movies, being around certain people, hot/cold weather, incessant noise, bright lights, whatever. Figure out what reduces your energy and find a way to lessen the amount of time you spend doing it.</li>
<li><strong>Identify the things that energize you and DO THEM regularly</strong>. Maybe it’s yoga, meditation, running, volunteering, reading, writing, or spending time with pets or human friends. Acknowledge the healing power of these activities and don’t neglect spending time doing things you enjoy.</li>
<li><strong>Set boundaries</strong>. Sensitive people often have a hard time saying “no”. Don’t let people suck your energy dry. Realize it’s ok to say “no” or let things go.</li>
<li><strong>Don’t impose your expectations on others. </strong>We’re human; sometimes we let each other down and hurt each other. Realize that while you may be highly perceptive and considerate, <em>you can’t expect everyone to be that way</em>. And that’s ok. Learn to enjoy your own journey and don’t expect others to understand or even be able to share in the way you experience the world.</li>
<li><strong>Talk to another sensitive friend or family member</strong>. It helps a lot to have someone who understands.</li>
<li><strong>When you are down, consciously choose to focus on things that lift you up</strong>. Remember moments when your happiness is amplified: finding a perfect flower in a garden, listening to the rain, playing with a dog, or making others happy. When you are feeling hurt and down, don’t retreat to a dark room to ruminate alone. Consciously make the choice to do something that will raise your mood. Step outside into the sun and take a walk. Watch a movie that always makes you laugh. Play with your dog.</li>
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<p>- Kelly @HighlySensitivePerson.net</p>
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</div>Mutiny of the Soul - How Anxiety, Depression & Fatigue May Be Linked to Your Spiritual Awakening, by UpliftConnecttag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2016-08-18:2344239:BlogPost:1031012016-08-18T12:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 2em;">Mutiny of the Soul</span></strong></p>
<div class="upl-art-temp-author-attrib block block-type-custom-code block-fluid-height" id="block-bl2578201c4ae276"><div class="block-content"><p style="text-align: center;">Could Fatigue and Depression be the Body's rebellion against…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 2em;">Mutiny of the Soul</span></strong></p>
<div id="block-bl2578201c4ae276" class="upl-art-temp-author-attrib block block-type-custom-code block-fluid-height"><div class="block-content"><p style="text-align: center;">Could Fatigue and Depression be the Body's rebellion against Modern Life?</p>
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<div class="_6m7 _3bt9" style="text-align: center;">Perhaps the problem is not with you but lies in the harmful Global Systems</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">A magnificent article on the state of pain and change in our world and how many of us as highly sensitive and spiritual souls and our bodies may have reacted to it.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">Excerpt. Full article linked below.</span></p>
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<div class="_6m7 _3bt9" style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Mutiny of the Soul. </strong></span><strong>When crises in our lives converge and propel us into a new life</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Another Way of Looking at Depression, Anxiety and Fatigue</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #808080;">When our soul-body is saying No to life, through fatigue or depression,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #808080;">the first thing to ask is: </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #808080;">Is life as I am living it the right life for me right now? Does the world as it is presented me merit my full participation? What if withdrawal is/was the only sane response?</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">What if there is something so fundamentally wrong with the world, the lives, and the way of being offered us, that withdrawal is the only sane response? Withdrawal, followed by a reentry into a world, a life, and a way of being wholly different from the one left behind?</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I have met countless people of great compassion and sensitivity, people who would describe themselves as “conscious” or “spiritual”, who have battled with CFS, depression, thyroid deficiency, and so on. These are people who have come to a transition point in their lives where they become physically incapable of living the old life in the old world. That is because, in fact, the world presented to us as normal and acceptable is anything but. It is a monstrosity. Ours is a planet in pain. If you need me to convince you of that, if you are unaware of the destruction of forests, oceans, wetlands, cultures, soil, health, beauty, dignity, and spirit that underlies the System we live in, then I have nothing to say to you. I only am speaking to you if you do believe that there is something deeply wrong with the way we are living on this planet.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">The old world is falling apart, and the crises that initiate the journey are converging upon us. Soon many people will follow the paths we have pioneered. Each journey is unique, but all share the same basic dynamics. When you have passed through it, and understood the necessity and rightness of each of its phases, you will be prepared<span class="text_exposed_show"> to midwife others through it as well. Your condition, all the years of it, has prepared you for this. It has prepared you to ease the passage of those who will follow. Everything you have gone through, every bit of the despair, has been necessary to forge you into a healer and a guide. The need is great. The time is coming soon.</span></p>
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<div class="text_exposed_show"><p style="text-align: center;">~Charles Eisenstein</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://upliftconnect.com/mutiny-of-the-soul/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE</a></strong> - MUTINY OF THE SOUL</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://upliftconnect.com/mutiny-of-the-soul/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://upliftconnect.com/mutiny-of-the-soul</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">*****</p>
<p>Further reading: The Science that Links Depression to Your Spiritual Awakening</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/05/20/the-science-that-ties-depression-to-your-coming-spiritual-awakening/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/05/20/the-science-that-ties-depression-to-your-coming-spiritual-awakening/</a></p>
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</div>The Four Elements of Wellbeingtag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2016-08-17:2344239:BlogPost:966872016-08-17T23:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p>ELEMENTAL MEDITATION: Balancing your Dosha (body) using Four Elements Meditation</p>
<p>~ a practice to Cultivate Wellbeing and Intuition </p>
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<p>The four elements - Earth, Water, Air and Fire - represent the four key ingredients that make up all of life on earth. Add a fifth element, Spirit, and we have life itself.…</p>
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<p>ELEMENTAL MEDITATION: Balancing your Dosha (body) using Four Elements Meditation</p>
<p>~ a practice to Cultivate Wellbeing and Intuition </p>
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<p>The four elements - Earth, Water, Air and Fire - represent the four key ingredients that make up all of life on earth. Add a fifth element, Spirit, and we have life itself.</p>
<div class="text_exposed_show"><p>Our physical bodies are composed of the four elements too: Earth, Water, Air and, one could say, Fire.</p>
<p>When our elements are in balance, we feel balanced. When one element dominates, while another waxes or weakens, we may feel off - sluggish, agitated, over- or under-regulated, or in others ways off-well. Working with the four elements is a key component of balanced living in both Shamanic and Ayurvedic principles and practices.</p>
<p>In basic terms, <br/> EARTH is our body.<br/> WATER our blood.<br/> AIR our breath<br/> and FIRE our spirit, or the spirit (force) that drives our digestive and indeed all of our life-affirming systems.</p>
<p>ELEMENTAL MEDITATION (increases Intuitive listening skills & Wellbeing): <br/> Sit quietly in the morning and tune in one at a time to the 4 elements as they exists in your body. Take your time. Spend at least several minutes with each. <br/> Note which elements feel strong and which may feel weakened or low. Are any of the elements in overdrive? underdrive? Or otherwise in need of your attention.</p>
<p>Feel into these places and listen to any needs your body may have in order to feel more balanced. What foods, activities, types of exercise (more vigorous, or more gentle perhaps), beverages, spices or sweets, might serve your body's balance this week ... Do you need more water? more or less food? excercise? meditation? time for everyday tasks? or creativity? Write it down and follow those prompts to your best ability this week.</p>
<p>Tune in once a week and re-check each aspect. Follow the guidance you receive consciously and intuitively for at least four weeks (one month). At the end of the month, take note of how your body feels. <br/> Are you feeling more stable, present and whole (balanced) in your daily life?</p>
<p>Take notes. Practice often.</p>
<p>Live well ~ namaste</p>
<p>alexa.devi eaglefeather<br/> Awakened Journey</p>
<p>March 15, 2015</p>
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</div>A Blessing for Beautytag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2016-08-17:2344239:BlogPost:1031932016-08-17T15:36:31.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p><strong>A Blessing for Beauty</strong></p>
<p>May the beauty of your life become more visible to you, that you may glimpse your wild divinity.</p>
<p>May the wonders of the earth call you forth from all your small, secret prisons and set your feet free in the pastures of possibilities.</p>
<p>May the light of dawn anoint your eyes that you…</p>
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<p><strong>A Blessing for Beauty</strong></p>
<p>May the beauty of your life become more visible to you, that you may glimpse your wild divinity.</p>
<p>May the wonders of the earth call you forth from all your small, secret prisons and set your feet free in the pastures of possibilities.</p>
<p>May the light of dawn anoint your eyes that you may behold what a miracle a day is.</p>
<p>May the liturgy of twilight shelter all your fears and darkness within the circle of ease. </p>
<p>May the angel of memory surprise you in bleak times with new gifts from the harvest of your vanished days.</p>
<p>May you allow no dark hand to quench the candle of hope in your heart.</p>
<p>May you discover a new generosity towards yourself, and encourage yourself to engage your life as a great adventure.</p>
<p>May the outside voices of fear and despair find no echo in you.</p>
<p>May you always trust the urgency and wisdom of your own spirit.</p>
<p>May the shelter and nourishment of all the good you have done, the love you have shown, the suffering you have carried, awaken around you to bless your life a thousand times.</p>
<p>And when love finds the path to your door may you open like the earth to the dawn, and trust your every hidden color towards its nourishment of light.</p>
<p>May you find enough stillness and silence to savor the kiss of God on your soul and delight in the eternity that shaped you, that holds you and calls you.</p>
<p>And may you know that despite confusion, anxiety and emptiness, your name is written in Heaven.</p>
<p>And may you come to see your life as a quiet sacrament of service, which awakens around you a rhythm where doubt gives way to the grace of wonder, where what is awkward and strained can find elegance, and where crippled hope can find wings, and torment enter at last unto the grace of serenity.</p>
<p>May Divine Beauty bless you.</p>
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<p>John O’Donohue, from <a href="http://toci.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=94c560dc78fb7c60ef819f2cf&id=4ca0bfb492&e=631cad1d38" target="_blank">Beauty – The Invisible Embrace</a></p>
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<p></p>Earthing for Wellbeing and Balancetag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2016-08-14:2344239:BlogPost:1032922016-08-14T16:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p style="text-align: center;">Sensitives: Are You Earthing?</p>
<p><br></br> We are experiencing a world calling for radical re-alignments both within and without and many of us are feeling extra tired, perhaps more wired, frequently ungrounded, and are requiring more rest, water, better self care and/or even a heafty dose of radical…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Sensitives: Are You Earthing?</p>
<p><br/> We are experiencing a world calling for radical re-alignments both within and without and many of us are feeling extra tired, perhaps more wired, frequently ungrounded, and are requiring more rest, water, better self care and/or even a heafty dose of radical trust.</p>
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<p>No matter how or in what area of your life (or body) you are feeling the effects of our world calling and breaking open for change, taking some time to plan and spend quality Earthing Time (time <span class="text_exposed_show">on the Earth) can help you (and your body) immensely to regain and maintain wellbeing and balance in the current moment and days ahead. Nature is where truth, sanity, order and respite from a world calling for radical re-alignment will always reside. after all, Nature is our ultimate and ever-present Mother.</span></p>
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<div class="text_exposed_show"><p>If you need grounding or nurturing, guidance or energy, remember to spend some time each day on and with the earth. And remember to nurture nature as Nature continues to nurture and sustain us all. Consider bringing an offering of your love (a flower, a stone blessed with your intent, some small fruit or spice offered in gratitude) to leave with your favorite spot or tree or river before you return to your ordinary routine.</p>
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<p>Thanking yourself and the Earth for this sacred Earthing time-out can go far to assist your spirit and body to heal and evolve as we continue moving through and into clearer, more expansive inner spaces and (hopefully) outer paradigms.</p>
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<p>In Lak'ech (I am another you)</p>
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<p>photo: Autumn Mandala by Lepidodendrum @DeviantArt</p>
</div>Teach Us and Show Us the Waytag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2016-08-09:2344239:BlogPost:1045992016-08-09T18:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TEACH US AND SHOW US THE WAY</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We call upon the earth, our planet home, with it's beautiful depths and soaring heights, its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Teach us, and show us the way.…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TEACH US AND SHOW US THE WAY</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We call upon the earth, our planet home, with it's beautiful depths and soaring heights, its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Teach us, and show us the way.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We call upon the mountains, the Cascades and the Olympics, the high green valleys and meadows filled with wild flowers, the snows that never melt, the summits of intense silence, and we ask that they:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Teach us, and show us the way.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img name="rg_hi" width="192" height="207" class="rg_hi uh_hi" id="rg_hi" alt="" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSHwj2bKu_aOdvDY2jizsqIVcMun4-J3_tmkjUHuk98hBzvZTtu"/></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow in our rivers and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields, and we ask that they:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Teach us, and show us the way.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We call upon the land which grows our food, the nurturing soil, the fertile fields, the abundant gardens and orchards, and we ask that they:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Teach us, and show us the way.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img name="rg_hi" width="275" height="183" class="rg_hi uh_hi" id="rg_hi" alt="" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS4N9DVykrUSBsR7WLszw1mKW4XZutYtlQEoJ40_UYEhtZ52N78Bw"/></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We call upon the forests, the great trees reaching strongly to the sky with earth in their roots and the heavens in their branches, the fir and the pine and the cedar, and we ask them to:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Teach us, and show us the way.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the seas, our brothers and sisters the wolves and the deer, the eagle and dove, the great whales and the dolphin, the beautiful Orca and salmon who share our northwest home, and we ask them to: Teach us, and show us the way.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our friends, who dreamed the best for future generations, and upon whose lives our lives are built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Teach us, and show us the way.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">And lastly, we call upon all that we hold most sacred, the presence and power of the Great Spirit of love and truth which flows through all the universe . . . to be with us to:</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Teach us, and show us the way.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font-size-1"><strong>CHINOOK BLESSING LITANY</strong></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font-size-1">eagle photo by Erik George Hangrad</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font-size-1">wolf/hawk by Chris Witte</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font-size-1">other photos per fair use via google</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font-size-1"><a href="http://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/" target="_blank">www.awakened-journey.com</a></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font-size-1">originally posted on awakened journey Aug 10, 2012</span></em></p>Meditative Moments: Lean Intag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2016-07-11:2344239:BlogPost:1008842016-07-11T03:00:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Lean In</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What ever life is offering you, lean into it.<br></br> Stay with it whatever it is, no matter how uncomfortable (or wonderful for that matter), for as long as you need.<br></br> When we stay present with what life is offering, we stay present with…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Lean In</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What ever life is offering you, lean into it.<br/> Stay with it whatever it is, no matter how uncomfortable (or wonderful for that matter), for as long as you need.<br/> When we stay present with what life is offering, we stay present with ourselves. This is self-love. And doesn't that part of you that needs your wise love and attention deserve it?<br/> Choose to never abandon yourself again.</p>
<div class="text_exposed_show"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;"><em>~Alexa</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #808080;"><em>Art: by Mara Friedman</em></span></p>
</div>You and I Are Not Separate by Clare Dakin - and an Invitation to Tree Sisterstag:awakenedrecovery.ning.com,2016-07-09:2344239:BlogPost:1020852016-07-09T14:30:00.000ZAlexahttp://awakenedrecovery.ning.com/profile/1qy0yagoa3kqu
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<p style="text-align: center;">I am more - you are more - we are more - we are not here to destroy life - we are here to adore, restore and protect life.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">You and I are not different. We are made of clouds and rivers, rocks and trees, grass and warm breezes. We are made of…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I am more - you are more - we are more - we are not here to destroy life - we are here to adore, restore and protect life.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">You and I are not different. We are made of clouds and rivers, rocks and trees, grass and warm breezes. We are made of tender touch, of wide e<span>yes, of bright laughter, deep sleep - we are made of the longing to matter, to share ourselves - to make sense and feel given - to be seen, valued and understood - to expand beyond the known and to bow to the sacred.</span></p>
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<div><p style="text-align: center;">You and I are the same. We long for peace and wildness, for adventure and safety, for health and the capacity to open our hearts again and again. We long to live in a world that cares for us and for itself - a world that we can love and cherish and tend back to the wholeness that we long for, for our own selves. Falling back in love with all life - nothing exempt - all things sacred.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">You and I are not separate - we breath the same trees - we drink the same rain - we embody the same soil - we open to the same unknowable depths of creation and seek to find meaning in the mirrored manifestations of our lives - we are lived by the same spirit that evolves through us all whether feathered or four legged - we see ourselves in each other’s eyes and we know that it is time to move beyond all veils that hold us apart - merge with life enough to be informed about how fully to evolve into life’s expression of sanity and love - on behalf of life.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">By Clare Dakin - <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftreesisters.org%2F&h=cAQHIHRyCAQHtFHiz-D8Wcx-N2fdbcWI3by6sUbbLYQALfQ&enc=AZMkNg8WkRk7z2PzxRI-I328mfhr7_BbpwGxkaws-iMmntVKZyXsfXvPAXeCd73R9pnPpzhOFBOAgnX-7vSlXEyBX7xWAvg7Xe47FawkHN8AdVPjVxfz-m9s-FQ_S6pOQS26qHEfHtmfqDtaK30Ub6JFGE8L27mrQ1DpBIwrVPrkkT3ikJxrL6WybxlJ3zUOtD6DcPMREIO7uq8O4SXLqzyV&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">treesisters.org</a></p>
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<p>“The feminine energy is enormously powerful, and we would not be here without its presence. Yet for so long, the power of the feminine has been feared and suppressed within the psyche and attitude on Earth. The feminine represents the felt and unseen. The feminine power is nurture, creativity, intuition, and heart-centred living and loving." ~ <em>unknown</em></p>
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