The First Leap- Finding Career Happiness And Keeping It (As An Example of Dreaming Our
Unique World Into Existence)
By Davin Infinity
Knowing that we are going to spend our entire lives working for money, learning skills or creative expression -
then career happiness could be considered as important as spiritual growth. In modern times we are often forced
into this decision at a very young age where we could not possibly understand the importance of the decision or
have the information to effectively make it. As a result we find ourselves later down the road in jobs we don’t
enjoy, wondering where it all went wrong. Our current system is set up to finance capital gain interests and not
healthy, creative living. So we are wounded by our spirits need to find work that makes us and the planet feel
alive. No matter what you are doing right now, fulfilling happiness comes from your work being in alignment
with your true calling or “souls’ purpose.”
Thankfully, regardless of your current situation it is possible to make a change. I understand for some it is harder
than others due to commitment and financial responsibility, but it can be done. If we are to make a change
and experience career happiness then we need two things.
1 - We need to know what it is we really want to do.
And we must command it into being with precisive focus and a belief that it is for our best.
2 - Have a plan to make it happen. Only actions bring results. Use creative visualization to see the reults.
The new world is upon us and that means new career opportunities and more support for that which brings us
into alignment with creative conscious evolution.
So first, how do you figure out what you actually want to do? The best way to figure this out is to write down
the conditions and benefits you are looking for then work backwards. For example, I want:
-A job or business that allows me to work from home.
-I want to work in an field that benefits humanity and our children
-I want to work with clients and coworkers that are bringing change and are inspired to transform.
And so on...
Once you have this criteria identified and written down something great happens. Your subconscious takes over
and you just start to notice opportunities that you never saw before. You will start to move in that direction.
Things will start to take shape in a way that you never imagined possible. But you must decide to be healthy and
wealthy right now! True Wealth is:
-Knowing you are completely taken care of by mother Earth. For she is infinitely abundant and only wants the
best for her children. (Poverty consciousness has been a weapon created by empires to enslave us from our inner
powers of manifesting anything we want and manifesting the individual freedom to pursue it on our own.)
-Understanding that only you are in control of your reality and your reality is limited to what you believe in.
-Knowing that your bank account is only a direct reflection of your belief in yourself and your relationship to
gifts of energy-money and the level of service and giving you act upon with others.
-Wealth is sustained happiness, freedom, health, and service to others. These are the true earthly riches/values.
Make a decision today to be wealthy. Write down this goal, integrate into a vision board or carry the paper with
you at all times. Take a look at your goal every day: Today I decide to be wealthy. Your conscious decision to
make a choice is the beginning of all your journeys. The moment you make a decision your consciousness will
automatically start working on the solution to create that reality. It will be a lifetime journey to find within.
Secondly, we need a plan. Work on your new opportunity part time and grow it slowly until it is substantial
enough to switch to it full time. It will happen, it just may take a few more years than you hoped for, and need a
little more effort. What choice do you have though? Your reward for this is life long career happiness and a job
or business you love that lest you share your gifts to the world.
Wisdom of the Ancients
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Receiving Resonance Medicine by Wahkeena Sitka Huva
Written in Response to the essay, “Tuning In!” published in the most recent issue of Conscious Dancer Magazine.
Listen to the sounds surrounding you now. Open your ears. What do you hear? In every moment, we are saturated in a vibrational field of sounds, resonating within the cellular chamber of our body. Our body receives every sound and energy pulsing through it, from the dump truck picking up trash first thing in the morning, to the sound of a bus beeping as it backs up, to the sound of a hummingbird hovering just above us out of reach, to the undulating pulsings of a deep throat singing tone. Every sound registers in our body, and if we are present enough to the sensations in our body as we sit in a Modern Urban environment, we can learn how to become vibrationally aware to the degree that our bodies are being constantly thwarted in its attempt to reside in a peaceful state of homeostasis. Our bodies have the capacity to experience deep states of blissfulness, relaxation and pleasure. And likewise, our bodies have the tremendous capacity to be overwhelmed by stress, tension, pain and irritation.
In the world of instruments, when one cello begins vibrating or one singing bowl begins vibrating, other stringed instruments and singing bowls nearby begin picking up that vibration and begin humming with a vibration in response – this is called sympathetic resonance. Likewise, our body instruments are subconsciously trained to respond to the world by the law of sympathetic resonance, and thus – in vibrationally contractive environments, in noisy, loud, scattered and jarring environments, we feel that down into our bones. And in response, we begin withdrawing ourselves; we begin putting up our shields so we don’t take in any more damaging stress from the surrounding environment. This is what it feels like to me when I walk the sidewalks of Manhattan – an overwhelming intensity is assaulting my subconscious field and my body in every moment, and in order to maintain balance within, it becomes crucial to disconnect from the surroundings, to put up psychic shields of self-protection and withdraw to safe, quiet environments.
But our bodies react much differently when we are in joyful, blissful, quiet or meditative environments. Due to our body’s sympathetic resonance response, in the presence of a body of moving water with a strong current and waterfalls, our body opens up to merge with the environment. It is the opposite of the contractive nature of sympathetic resonance in the city. Our body naturally wants to melt into a state of bliss, and that is possible in environments that are vibrationally conducive to pleasure – where our bodies open up and receive the sensual pleasures of moving water, the gentle rustling of wind through branches, the subtlety of our bare feet upon cold, damp mossy boulders.
Something altogether different can happen when we enter into a high energy state of making sounds – making music, and dancing. An elation washes over us like a waterfall pouring over our hearts – our spirit begins pouring through us with creative energy, the natural fire of our soul singing joy. Whether our creative energy takes the form of our voice channelling sound current through our vocal chords with the vibrations moving through our bodies, or hands upon drums creating rhythm – this is creative energy in its purest state. A natural energy moving through us without having to try to understand it – it moves through us and we become moved by the experience. And this, in sympathetic resonance, is moving to others, and causes others to move – their bodies.
For thousands of years, tribal rituals have taken place in the Nairobi desert in Africa, where the Bushmen live and dance all night long around a bonfire. An American shaman named Bradford Keeney has travelled to Namibia many times and danced with the Bushmen there, who are renowned for their shamanic abilities to reach transcendental states of ecstasy through all night dance ceremonies, which enables them to do their healing work. In the context of a village bonfire, with the women clapping and singing polyrhythmic songs, and the men dancing themselves into altered states of consciousness – the work of healing the village is done, by clearing the energy of the village by keeping the community heart centered and loving with each other. This is facilitated by the deep states of union and liberation that happen in the context of community up all night long dancing and chanting songs. The shamans are able to do their healing work when they have danced themselves into a transcendental oblivion, and they have built themselves up to a ‘boiling point’ of N’om in their abdomen. When their ecstatic energy has built up in their abdomen, they are then able to release it and discharge it like an orgasm having its release, and that high ecstatic energy IS the medicine. The shamans then apply their ecstatic medicine upon the bodies of the ill by laying on the bodies of those receiving, and undulating their spirit medicine into them and melting into them through deep states of trance. But in order for that ecstatic energy to be released, there must be a song and a rhythm to coax forth the ecstasy and guide it rhythmically along the current of melody.
Thus, song is shamanic. And our bodies are shamanic receptor sites – capable of moving tremendous amounts of healing energy when our hearts and bodies open up to respond with the sympathetic resonance of rhythm. Our bodies dance, our hearts expand to take in more, to drink deeply of the elation of our spirit catapulted into the joy of this song. And in the world of vibration and sympathetic resonance, we can uplift others to reach this healing vibration of ecstasy. We begin sending out the pulsations of a heart uplifted by joy and transcendance. This is our work as light workers – to be radio receivers transmitting the pulsations of an awakened heart – this is our pure light, our divine birthright and work.
There is so much distrust and fear on the planet. So many hearts un-opened. So many hearts that need to receive so much love, compassion and healing. So many hearts that simply want to be felt, recognized, understood – held in the arms of the mother, the divine mother of compassion. So many hearts and minds afraid to let go and surrender to the transcendental bliss beating within them if they would let themselves feel more deeply – the pleasure of song, the pleasure of love, the pleasure of bathing in pristine waters and the pleasure of being held in a warm, open-hearted caress. Sound, song and dance are some of the biggest tools we have to offer the world of fear. When looking into the glowing eyes of a joyful dancing goddess, swept up into the passion of the song catapulting her into a frenzied state of bounce, how can one bear resisting to sympathetically resonate with that state of joy. It is the natural impulse of the heart to desire being open, to be happy.
Thus, I was inspired to offer and facilitate Ecstatic Medicine vocal circles. The voice is our primary instrument – we are automatically endowed with it, it is free, goes with us everywhere, and can propel us into healing states if worked with intentionally. Our voice is also one of those aspects of many people that carries with it a level of fear, intimidation and insecurity. Having facilitated many vocal circles now, I have seen that many, many people are scared to use their voice and express feeling “blocked” in their voice; as though there is something holding them back or choking their vocal expression. The mind does amazing things to get in the way of our natural abilities to be birdlike and resonate with playful liberation.
Those who are gifted with a beautiful voice have been given a special gift to offer the world, a gift that has often been called “Having Soul” – a gift that can inspire many deep feelings: of beauty, of awe, ecstatic elation, tears, & chills down the spine. And the voice, when used intentionally in self-cultivation practices such as Yoga and QiGong and Reiki, can be used in such a way as to bring oneself into deep states of meditation and inner balancing. The voice is probably the best tool we have to access vibrational experience on a body-based, cellular-based level. And as the voice passes through our body chamber, we can experience so much vibrational resonance throughout our torso, lungs, heart, throat and head. This can help us direct our attention inwardly – into our felt experience of the body. Thus the voice is our primary meditation tool! We can cultivate a meditative awareness more easily when we focus our attention on what we experience in our bodies, combined with deep breathwork practice and internal energetic cultivation arts.
The basis of my entire practice is thus: the merging of inner attention cultivation practices, with sounding, vocalizations, breathwork, inspired by Qigong – then moving into practicing deep listening, resonating, primal sounding and chanting into spontaneous tribal song play. When participants enter intentionally into a sacred space with the focus on using the voice for inner cultivation and raising ecstatic energy, people open up and move into transcendant spaces. My work is very much a guided journey into the realm of channelling the celestial energy within the group – because at the heart of every person, is a divine essence seeking to be remembered and embodied. We are all divine embodiments of divine source or God / Goddess, wanting to know and experience love and deep states of union with the divine.
The magic happens when we attune our attention to listening and merging into group states of union. When we put our attention on the sounds we are hearing and feeling in our bodies, emanating from each others mouths, we are being bathed in a celestial choir – the beauty of each other’s sounds and voices offers us a space to merge with that sympathetic resonance and melt into harmonic bliss.
We are living in transformational times on Planet Earth, everyone can feel it – the period of Denial has passed. We all know it. Changes are afoot, and everyone has begun being lifted into greater and greater levels of transformational intensity over the last few years. For better or for worse, the old paradigm ways are falling away and we will be learning a new way of acclimating to a transformational Earth. In my shamanic, visionary awakenings – I have received visions and downloads about the transformation occurring on Planet Earth. And I believe strongly that we are living on a Planet that is about to undergo a dramatic energetic shift. While the message of fearing the Earth’s transformational process is being broadcasted in the media, I believe the real message coming from the Earth herself is that of an ecstatic rebirthing. Thus, if we wish to learn how to ride the transformative currents emerging from the Earth, we must learn how to be more embodied, more body-centered and intuitively body-based in our awareness – in order to listen to the Earth’s energy and be attuned to her knowledge and information.
I believe that as a culture – we must begin learning how to become more attuned to the Earth’s energy and information – by spending time in Nature, and learning how to feel more deeply. Too many have become hard crusted and disconnected from the Earth in urban environments. I believe that using our voices, using sounding, in combination with QiGong and practicing energy cultivation arts in Sacred Sites is going to become crucial in ones ability to understand how to feel the information emanating from the Earth through her time of rebirth. Thus my vision for offering healing gatherings is moving in the direction of facilitating celestial activation Ecstatic Medicine vocal circles in Sacred Sites around the planet.
When we learn how to trust our divine selves, and we learn how to open our hearts to trusting our divine guidance from the universe – we have nothing to fear. When we learn how to trust the energy moving through our voices and moving through our bodies, we can learn how to trust spirit speaking through us. When we learn how to trust our divine essence, we can learn how to trust the intuition and Divine Essence in another. When we learn how to trust the ability of the community or circle of friends to come together and co-create a channelling of that open hearted energy of union through sound, voice and movement, we can learn how to trust the ability of humanity to step up to the next level on our ascent on the evolutionary ladder. We are all in it together, and everybody has their own divine part to play in the story that is unfolding. None of us will make it unless we work together, create together, play together, cooperate together, love together and sing together!
You can Find Wahkeena Sitka Huva at http://illumin.escens.org/
Listen to the sounds surrounding you now. Open your ears. What do you hear? In every moment, we are saturated in a vibrational field of sounds, resonating within the cellular chamber of our body. Our body receives every sound and energy pulsing through it, from the dump truck picking up trash first thing in the morning, to the sound of a bus beeping as it backs up, to the sound of a hummingbird hovering just above us out of reach, to the undulating pulsings of a deep throat singing tone. Every sound registers in our body, and if we are present enough to the sensations in our body as we sit in a Modern Urban environment, we can learn how to become vibrationally aware to the degree that our bodies are being constantly thwarted in its attempt to reside in a peaceful state of homeostasis. Our bodies have the capacity to experience deep states of blissfulness, relaxation and pleasure. And likewise, our bodies have the tremendous capacity to be overwhelmed by stress, tension, pain and irritation.
In the world of instruments, when one cello begins vibrating or one singing bowl begins vibrating, other stringed instruments and singing bowls nearby begin picking up that vibration and begin humming with a vibration in response – this is called sympathetic resonance. Likewise, our body instruments are subconsciously trained to respond to the world by the law of sympathetic resonance, and thus – in vibrationally contractive environments, in noisy, loud, scattered and jarring environments, we feel that down into our bones. And in response, we begin withdrawing ourselves; we begin putting up our shields so we don’t take in any more damaging stress from the surrounding environment. This is what it feels like to me when I walk the sidewalks of Manhattan – an overwhelming intensity is assaulting my subconscious field and my body in every moment, and in order to maintain balance within, it becomes crucial to disconnect from the surroundings, to put up psychic shields of self-protection and withdraw to safe, quiet environments.
But our bodies react much differently when we are in joyful, blissful, quiet or meditative environments. Due to our body’s sympathetic resonance response, in the presence of a body of moving water with a strong current and waterfalls, our body opens up to merge with the environment. It is the opposite of the contractive nature of sympathetic resonance in the city. Our body naturally wants to melt into a state of bliss, and that is possible in environments that are vibrationally conducive to pleasure – where our bodies open up and receive the sensual pleasures of moving water, the gentle rustling of wind through branches, the subtlety of our bare feet upon cold, damp mossy boulders.
Something altogether different can happen when we enter into a high energy state of making sounds – making music, and dancing. An elation washes over us like a waterfall pouring over our hearts – our spirit begins pouring through us with creative energy, the natural fire of our soul singing joy. Whether our creative energy takes the form of our voice channelling sound current through our vocal chords with the vibrations moving through our bodies, or hands upon drums creating rhythm – this is creative energy in its purest state. A natural energy moving through us without having to try to understand it – it moves through us and we become moved by the experience. And this, in sympathetic resonance, is moving to others, and causes others to move – their bodies.
For thousands of years, tribal rituals have taken place in the Nairobi desert in Africa, where the Bushmen live and dance all night long around a bonfire. An American shaman named Bradford Keeney has travelled to Namibia many times and danced with the Bushmen there, who are renowned for their shamanic abilities to reach transcendental states of ecstasy through all night dance ceremonies, which enables them to do their healing work. In the context of a village bonfire, with the women clapping and singing polyrhythmic songs, and the men dancing themselves into altered states of consciousness – the work of healing the village is done, by clearing the energy of the village by keeping the community heart centered and loving with each other. This is facilitated by the deep states of union and liberation that happen in the context of community up all night long dancing and chanting songs. The shamans are able to do their healing work when they have danced themselves into a transcendental oblivion, and they have built themselves up to a ‘boiling point’ of N’om in their abdomen. When their ecstatic energy has built up in their abdomen, they are then able to release it and discharge it like an orgasm having its release, and that high ecstatic energy IS the medicine. The shamans then apply their ecstatic medicine upon the bodies of the ill by laying on the bodies of those receiving, and undulating their spirit medicine into them and melting into them through deep states of trance. But in order for that ecstatic energy to be released, there must be a song and a rhythm to coax forth the ecstasy and guide it rhythmically along the current of melody.
Thus, song is shamanic. And our bodies are shamanic receptor sites – capable of moving tremendous amounts of healing energy when our hearts and bodies open up to respond with the sympathetic resonance of rhythm. Our bodies dance, our hearts expand to take in more, to drink deeply of the elation of our spirit catapulted into the joy of this song. And in the world of vibration and sympathetic resonance, we can uplift others to reach this healing vibration of ecstasy. We begin sending out the pulsations of a heart uplifted by joy and transcendance. This is our work as light workers – to be radio receivers transmitting the pulsations of an awakened heart – this is our pure light, our divine birthright and work.
There is so much distrust and fear on the planet. So many hearts un-opened. So many hearts that need to receive so much love, compassion and healing. So many hearts that simply want to be felt, recognized, understood – held in the arms of the mother, the divine mother of compassion. So many hearts and minds afraid to let go and surrender to the transcendental bliss beating within them if they would let themselves feel more deeply – the pleasure of song, the pleasure of love, the pleasure of bathing in pristine waters and the pleasure of being held in a warm, open-hearted caress. Sound, song and dance are some of the biggest tools we have to offer the world of fear. When looking into the glowing eyes of a joyful dancing goddess, swept up into the passion of the song catapulting her into a frenzied state of bounce, how can one bear resisting to sympathetically resonate with that state of joy. It is the natural impulse of the heart to desire being open, to be happy.
Thus, I was inspired to offer and facilitate Ecstatic Medicine vocal circles. The voice is our primary instrument – we are automatically endowed with it, it is free, goes with us everywhere, and can propel us into healing states if worked with intentionally. Our voice is also one of those aspects of many people that carries with it a level of fear, intimidation and insecurity. Having facilitated many vocal circles now, I have seen that many, many people are scared to use their voice and express feeling “blocked” in their voice; as though there is something holding them back or choking their vocal expression. The mind does amazing things to get in the way of our natural abilities to be birdlike and resonate with playful liberation.
Those who are gifted with a beautiful voice have been given a special gift to offer the world, a gift that has often been called “Having Soul” – a gift that can inspire many deep feelings: of beauty, of awe, ecstatic elation, tears, & chills down the spine. And the voice, when used intentionally in self-cultivation practices such as Yoga and QiGong and Reiki, can be used in such a way as to bring oneself into deep states of meditation and inner balancing. The voice is probably the best tool we have to access vibrational experience on a body-based, cellular-based level. And as the voice passes through our body chamber, we can experience so much vibrational resonance throughout our torso, lungs, heart, throat and head. This can help us direct our attention inwardly – into our felt experience of the body. Thus the voice is our primary meditation tool! We can cultivate a meditative awareness more easily when we focus our attention on what we experience in our bodies, combined with deep breathwork practice and internal energetic cultivation arts.
The basis of my entire practice is thus: the merging of inner attention cultivation practices, with sounding, vocalizations, breathwork, inspired by Qigong – then moving into practicing deep listening, resonating, primal sounding and chanting into spontaneous tribal song play. When participants enter intentionally into a sacred space with the focus on using the voice for inner cultivation and raising ecstatic energy, people open up and move into transcendant spaces. My work is very much a guided journey into the realm of channelling the celestial energy within the group – because at the heart of every person, is a divine essence seeking to be remembered and embodied. We are all divine embodiments of divine source or God / Goddess, wanting to know and experience love and deep states of union with the divine.
The magic happens when we attune our attention to listening and merging into group states of union. When we put our attention on the sounds we are hearing and feeling in our bodies, emanating from each others mouths, we are being bathed in a celestial choir – the beauty of each other’s sounds and voices offers us a space to merge with that sympathetic resonance and melt into harmonic bliss.
We are living in transformational times on Planet Earth, everyone can feel it – the period of Denial has passed. We all know it. Changes are afoot, and everyone has begun being lifted into greater and greater levels of transformational intensity over the last few years. For better or for worse, the old paradigm ways are falling away and we will be learning a new way of acclimating to a transformational Earth. In my shamanic, visionary awakenings – I have received visions and downloads about the transformation occurring on Planet Earth. And I believe strongly that we are living on a Planet that is about to undergo a dramatic energetic shift. While the message of fearing the Earth’s transformational process is being broadcasted in the media, I believe the real message coming from the Earth herself is that of an ecstatic rebirthing. Thus, if we wish to learn how to ride the transformative currents emerging from the Earth, we must learn how to be more embodied, more body-centered and intuitively body-based in our awareness – in order to listen to the Earth’s energy and be attuned to her knowledge and information.
I believe that as a culture – we must begin learning how to become more attuned to the Earth’s energy and information – by spending time in Nature, and learning how to feel more deeply. Too many have become hard crusted and disconnected from the Earth in urban environments. I believe that using our voices, using sounding, in combination with QiGong and practicing energy cultivation arts in Sacred Sites is going to become crucial in ones ability to understand how to feel the information emanating from the Earth through her time of rebirth. Thus my vision for offering healing gatherings is moving in the direction of facilitating celestial activation Ecstatic Medicine vocal circles in Sacred Sites around the planet.
When we learn how to trust our divine selves, and we learn how to open our hearts to trusting our divine guidance from the universe – we have nothing to fear. When we learn how to trust the energy moving through our voices and moving through our bodies, we can learn how to trust spirit speaking through us. When we learn how to trust our divine essence, we can learn how to trust the intuition and Divine Essence in another. When we learn how to trust the ability of the community or circle of friends to come together and co-create a channelling of that open hearted energy of union through sound, voice and movement, we can learn how to trust the ability of humanity to step up to the next level on our ascent on the evolutionary ladder. We are all in it together, and everybody has their own divine part to play in the story that is unfolding. None of us will make it unless we work together, create together, play together, cooperate together, love together and sing together!
You can Find Wahkeena Sitka Huva at http://illumin.escens.org/
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Stepping up to who I am
After so many days breaking open my heart and mind in a new expression of love for God and the Self, winter approaches to freeze the deal and allow me time to rest. I have been up and down in the last few years and I have come to a place of, "Oh yes, I have done a lot of work. A lot of my life is supporting me and my devotion to my heart's path." If you think that you are stuck and see no end to your turmoil - job, money, family, etc. Please do not give up. Please know that there is a divine plan working for you and through you. You are being guided at every moment. Know that every circumstance in your life is an opportunity to throw yourself into the change and transformation which will shift you in a new direction, away from all that does not serve you.
A woman came up to me yesterday after a show. She looked me in my eyes and said, "You have it don't you. You are so happy. I can see it in your eyes. You have it."
I just looked back at her with full expression of my heart and said, "It is so easy. It is so easy." Letting her know that it is possible, that it is a sacred Truth- that light and love are possible, are natural divine expressions of the soul. I am not saying that one must be happy at all times, that the good must triumph over pain and suffering. I am expressing a new understanding and comfort in myself that reflects the work of going through the dark night of the soul and coming out the other end fully engaged with the light. Breaking open the heart into the center of my being creates the momentum of such change and surrender that Light is now a stronger source of energy and movement in my life. I had to give up a lot of myself and my ideas to come to a place of intuitive faith and trust in the divine plan and my place in it. To trust that if I surrender, my path will open to me and God will directly guide me toward the movement and action that needs to be taken. It was these steps and the surrendering of my smaller self that has lead me to where I am now.
I recognize myself as one who does not settle for anything less than wholeness, kindness, compassion, and mercy. If I throw myself down on my knees and open my heart to God, I expect a result. If I am faced with a drama or situation from another which forces me to look at myself and my behavior, I look. I look, listen, and act from the best of my integrity to grow and develop into a wiser being with a stronger inclination toward the light. I do not dwindle in the pain long, I use it as momentum to grow and re-birth myself. I know that every situation that calls for my attention is being called for a reason. I meditate on how I can be of assistance for God, how I can grow into a stronger and lighter being, what the best use of my energy is, and who in the situation needs affirmation and love.
I have a very strong desire to serve humanity. This desire does not come from my mind, but from my heart. It is this desire which motivates me every day to learn more about my world and about my particular gifts and callings in this life. How do i work? What do I work for? What is keeping me from my service and active presence to every moment, medium, object, and being. It is usually "I" and the choices that "I" make which keep me from this larger harmony and flow. As I learn to step away from what I want and what the rebel in me chooses, the larger self can be the intuitive directive flow which graces my life.
This is the place that I am in. After two months of incredible transformational and direct experiences of the divine at work through me, through those around me, and in the very breath and air of life, I am somewhat back to the basics again. How to move and act with this clear self. But don't get me wrong, the other self is still there attempting to trick me and bump off my road at every move. I now take it less seriously and get to play more. I am learning compassion for myself and grace as I steer my vehicle along this divine path.
I find that life has this equilibrium and disequilibrium law. In disequilibrium life is in a state of transformation and change and cyclical shifts. This is a time for creative influx, insight, movement and new change. This is a state I am very used to. In Disequilibiruam we are being blown like a leaf off a tree as fall turns to winter. It is a beautiful dance with nature and God. Often times I completely lose myself in this dance and this feels exactly right. I have no control and yet new grace, art, love, harmony are the simplest actions at every moment. People, places, activities fit in a flow of constant synchronicity and enjoyment. There are times of disequilibirum that feel so intense that when my mind tries to understand, it feels shattered at the weight of intense movement and insight. In Equilibrium we must learn to embody and ground with these wave like reverberations from the state before. We learn to balance and harmonize in this larger state of awareness. As I approach the equilibrium state, I can either fall back down to where I was before the transformational experience and forget everything I just went through, or I can use my new knowledge and energy from my experiences as a place of wisdom and insight as I take a breath and re-harmonize and ground. Each state of equilibrium is a step higher and more in tune with where I want to be going and what I am being called to do. It is in these equilibrium states that support a grounded and clear presence where real active work can be done. The problem with equilibrium and human nature is that we often find it hard to hold these states and unconsciously create disequilibrium in harmful ways. If we can withstand, meditate and hold a conscious breathing space for our new awareness we will be lead organically to the next natural state of disequilibrium without our harmful influence. This process makes me think of a coil spiraling upwards, always higher than the spot below, but in a cyclical movement - unlike a linear ladder or stair pattern.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Dear Friends,
Don Pablo was sick for several weeks.
This morning Don Pablo passed onto his next experience.
We are all so blessed to have had him on the planet in physical form at the same time as us.
His legacy of kindness, generosity, art and spirit is a gift beyond measure.
Let us all hold him in our hearts and minds and souls with light and intention for a clear and strong transition.
In celebration of a life well lived and with deep love. . .
Considered one of the world’s greatest visionary artists, Pablo Amaringo is renowned for his highly complex, colorful and intricate paintings of his visions from drinking ayahuasca. Once a practicing shaman, curandero (spiritual healer) and vegetalista, Pablo has gracefully and graciously manifested the spiritual teachings from his ayahuasca experiences, giving birth to his visionary art.
As Humanity Awakes...
Maya Elder Hunbatz Men shares: "...as humanity awakes to the spirit in all matter, I have absolute hope that we will begin to live and work in a sacred way again. We did not come this far through the burden of time and space to end it in this way. We are here to be victorious. We are here to witness and participate in the great celebration.
"It is funny humanity as a whole feels that we have no impact on this reality. How can we believe so little of ourselves that we feel we are just blowing in the wind, as if by accident, just witnessing or being a victim of this reality. The big issues we face today on Mother Earth are directly related to our lack of self-esteem. Isn't it funny that clearing up old self-esteem issues could save the Planet! Think about it! We need to realize, honor and respect our creative force and realize we are creators. We hold this reality together. We are the keepers of the Earth. When we truly honor ourselves and our awesome creative power we will again live in a sacred way where we honor all life. When we honor all life the essence/spirit of all living things will manifest.
"Humanity is waking up, and in this important year we are riding the crest of a very big wave. We are living on the edge. We are living between worlds. How we live, the choices we make, the sensitivities we develop, and our love and honor for all life will see us through."