tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4491467091026859432024-03-14T02:21:20.309-07:00AWEAwaken With Exercise (AWE) integrates mindful motion and stillness fostering more wholesome
emotional wisdom.
There is no greater skill then to learn to use what we have here in
the present.
AWE reduces stress,increases concentration,improves confidence
& emotional balance.Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-88626601818029849322022-08-20T13:57:00.003-07:002022-08-21T07:50:39.716-07:00PRO- pause, relax open<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRuMvcIyGMkGJR08_aMYxJqKiRCESYfIPg3JDkakaIITGi9rEvTFe7wPD1pOwX4nU_76eBZrmyr26DBK10gfdcXMduWhmn87FCth6sIiLjWSCoROJwwnLbPfwNuXwRCSpeRns2v-JqbDC6OYRnLM418f4Bk4SmpnA82IMQ46UDOCqO7die1RTfHzGR/s2048/92B24DD8-D387-4835-AFF2-4F8EF057C097.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRuMvcIyGMkGJR08_aMYxJqKiRCESYfIPg3JDkakaIITGi9rEvTFe7wPD1pOwX4nU_76eBZrmyr26DBK10gfdcXMduWhmn87FCth6sIiLjWSCoROJwwnLbPfwNuXwRCSpeRns2v-JqbDC6OYRnLM418f4Bk4SmpnA82IMQ46UDOCqO7die1RTfHzGR/s320/92B24DD8-D387-4835-AFF2-4F8EF057C097.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-038d5032-7fff-4d9c-dc78-815f17d50e4f"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acting as if I am in the eye of the hurricane is how I will best go forth. The wild winds of what is presently going on provides me the opportunity to go within. By remaining calm given today’s turbulence may I be free to respond. Rather than to react may I cultivate peace, love and joy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Showing up to my circumstances as a PRO, I Pause, Relax and Open to whatever insanity that presently I may face. May I liberate myself from such suffering and allow freedom to ring. Acting from inspiration rather than reacting in desperation I celebrate my highest potential, purpose and possibility. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><u>Pause relax open PRO -become a champ not a chump</u></i></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take a breath —pause relax and open to PRO</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laughing rather than crying may I lighten up</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Champion each moment with peace, love and joy</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be free to breathe whenever or NOT</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be kind and gentle with yourself -well Yes </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KISS —keep it simple, Sweetheart</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 19pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be Free- Respond with ability</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PRO liberates more possibility, potential and purpose. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <i>PAUSE, RELAX and OP</i></span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>EN to the wow of the now!</i></span></p><div><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div>Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-1073896627075576912022-08-11T02:46:00.000-07:002022-08-11T02:46:07.446-07:00We All Are Stardust<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enjoy your star time✨✨🌟 </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let the beauty you love be what you do!</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Rumi</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play with the rays cycling above, we are all children of the stars. It is time to celebrate all our blessings and spread our thanks. As we light our inner candles our earth and hearts resonate love throughout the galaxy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please experience this yourself. Bathe in starlight recharging and beholding. Do you feel being held by this blessed light above? Dance under the Milky Way allowing the trillions of lights filtering into the trillions of cells within you.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are all children of the stars! It is a quantum pool of loving kindness. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">93% of the mass in our body is stardust originating from giant red stars by the Big Bang 5 billion years ago. We share 97% of the same atoms. All the basic elements of life, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, calcium, iron were created before the earth. We share from these red giant stars more of this stardust than the asteroids or the planet Mars, All living and nonliving things on Earth, from water, crystals, rocks, stones,plants, anim</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">als, insects, birds, fish consists, of this stardust</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Stars for Aboriginals continue to be mystical stars watchers. These heavens are the homes of ancestors, animals, plants, and spirits. The stars being order to all aspects of their daily life and culture</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cultivate the mirth and this rebirth. Play with the rays cycling above! Take refuge by visualizing this. </span>-<span style="font-size: large;"> be a Starshiner. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are all blessed children of the stars.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii-PYM9qO7732Mr00kXIkhBMnKvhU3p8yz4CPFMhTHJR78_VfsDCnz-r35kH77qF2XaBqlF7kv30wxyPx824JciqHPGKjAD4Cyg5T1VSkkvATzrBodcGoBbeYoubNziWPcK4ZjgeQL0rZY_W2MGf1lNdfyH92m0zUAFsq98E8Zt_Iel_5TiKQ/s2048/8F92153B-FEF9-4EE5-A6F8-E3652ABAC547.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii-PYM9qO7732Mr00kXIkhBMnKvhU3p8yz4CPFMhTHJR78_VfsDCnz-r35kH77qF2XaBqlF7kv30wxyPx824JciqHPGKjAD4Cyg5T1VSkkvATzrBodcGoBbeYoubNziWPcK4ZjgeQL0rZY_W2MGf1lNdfyH92m0zUAFsq98E8Zt_Iel_5TiKQ/s320/8F92153B-FEF9-4EE5-A6F8-E3652ABAC547.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span><br />- be a Starshiner. We are all blessed children of the stars.</span></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Starlight is becoming endangered, affecting both wildlife and humans. </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our population lives in a very electrified world with over two-thirds of the world’s population living in a light polluted area.About 40% of us at night face perpetual light and 25% experience artificial twilight that exceeds the illumination of the full moon. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">83% of people live in light polluted areas and 99% of Americans and Europeans live in this artificial illumination. More than a third of humanity and almost 80% of North America can no longer see the Milky Way.</span></b></p><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div>Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-14109933789487547912022-07-24T16:03:00.002-07:002022-08-11T02:46:57.884-07:00We Are All Natives<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3Svyj3QVhh5_G3Y9XEEeC2ohRtstNXc778FzKxYn7pmqnJUYn3j-oaeYQ4WG49NomiKRa6ikevd7gysFjr18oCBruOycNH6c4jw-iuyVzGnCqPwJt2VzHHa-p4yYs8jsvMKkcoYH32-HCfbg2psgBUsSo5LM8KGu9MCbGDSZTlM5lil4H5pO_zwd/s4032/IMG_0294.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3Svyj3QVhh5_G3Y9XEEeC2ohRtstNXc778FzKxYn7pmqnJUYn3j-oaeYQ4WG49NomiKRa6ikevd7gysFjr18oCBruOycNH6c4jw-iuyVzGnCqPwJt2VzHHa-p4yYs8jsvMKkcoYH32-HCfbg2psgBUsSo5LM8KGu9MCbGDSZTlM5lil4H5pO_zwd/s320/IMG_0294.HEIC" width="240" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />We all come from the earth and some day we will all return to it. Yet, how often many of us forget and neglect the most important thing: how we live. We are at a critical time in the history of our earth. Does the land belong to us? Indigenous people have always believed that they belong to the land not that the land belongs to them. Our neglect of the earth is now making this planet unlivable for many beings. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: pre-wrap;">What action must we take to ensure the survival of all of earth's creatures? Our ancestors left us a legacy of 60,000 years of wisdom and instructions on how to care for the earth. Shamans remind us that interdependence is essential for survival. Now we can celebrate by art, music, dance, singing and other rituals to how best to show our gratitude for our world.</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-afdd1868-7fff-bada-82d5-843bed683d31"><span style="font-size: large;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teach your children. What we have taught our children- that the earth is our mother. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whatever befalls the earth. Befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If men spit upon the ground, They spit upon themselves.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This we know. The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth. This we know. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">All things are connected Like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whatever befalls the earth, Befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">We did not weave the web of life, We are merely a stand in it. Whatever we do to the stand in it. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whatever we do to the web, We do to ourselves. - Chief Seattle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's honor our ancestors’ great teachings and, by doing so, plant seeds of hope for future generations. Exploring the archetypes of the Grateful Warrior, the Compassionate Healer, the Balanced Visionary, and the Wise Teacher leads to a four-fold path*. Each archetype offers wisdom to help us make choices that can benefit our world.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* The Grateful Warrior’s way is to know the right use of power -- to show up!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* The Compassionate Healer’s way is to extend love -- to pay attention to what has </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">heart and meaning!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* The Balanced Visionary’s way expresses creativity -- to give voice to what </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we see!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* The Wise Teacher’s way is to practice wisdom -- to become open to all possibilities and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: pre-wrap;">unattached to outcome!</span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Let’s preserve our Earth and its sacred beings. Celebrate with green alternatives such as composting or riding a bike? Finally, as we inhale and exhale, we find that we are making a fundamental shift in consciousness and value deeper mindfulness into the sacredness of all things.</span></span></span><div><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><div>* Live simply *Laugh freely *Give easily *Speak kindly</div><div>*Think calmly *Love deeply</div></span></span></span></div>Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-56432596831852905402022-07-24T15:50:00.001-07:002022-07-24T15:50:23.998-07:00Starlight Please<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC9lQmR_uKHQ4Lc0PnvC4bBO3hYIFYxMnnIw3r-A_YcS7u7WHvz3yXFQtEyNLJDjPjgZgV4_7ngSxB2JeUnzDIN2rvWaD9C63ERt7RJYnxDxbMw9oJuFvYkrxJEKrgAIHZXrHOucMOw9eM9DlwyZohuCNN5DWgxYnV8Tza-53dRERGOGANhmA9m_v7/s4032/IMG_0297.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC9lQmR_uKHQ4Lc0PnvC4bBO3hYIFYxMnnIw3r-A_YcS7u7WHvz3yXFQtEyNLJDjPjgZgV4_7ngSxB2JeUnzDIN2rvWaD9C63ERt7RJYnxDxbMw9oJuFvYkrxJEKrgAIHZXrHOucMOw9eM9DlwyZohuCNN5DWgxYnV8Tza-53dRERGOGANhmA9m_v7/s320/IMG_0297.HEIC" width="320" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">Starlight is becoming endangered, affecting both wildlife and humans. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our population lives in a very electrified world with over two-thirds of the world’s population living in a light polluted area.About 40% of us at night face perpetual light and 25% experience artificial twilight that exceeds the illumination of the full moon.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">83% of people live in light polluted areas and 99% of Americans and Europeans live in this artificial illumination. More than a third of humanity and almost 80% of North America can no longer see the Milky Way.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Right in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley is where I live. I have the fortune of backing the George Washington National Forest outside Edinburg, Virginia. I look at the amazing starlight through my four oaks over 100 years old on my land in the middle of Three Mile Mountain.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">At my home I easily can see both planets and stars. Schon-hin-dow, or Beautiful Daughter of the Stars- Shenandoah, is what the First peoples call this magical Valley. These Star Children had the wisdom that these heavenly lights were contained within.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our first settlers thought they had found the “garden of Eden” and my town was first called “Edenburg”. My valley has many places to view the night sky. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Come see for yourself of our night sky " Beautiful Daughter of the Stars." Bathing in starlight is something all humans must experience.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We all come from and return to the stars.</span></p><p><br /></p>Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-61606702680237651702022-06-08T08:15:00.000-07:002022-06-08T08:15:08.605-07:00AWE & Grateful Intention<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyiSXpTih8FaYE1pjniM48r9GKW1j0jl88sBDffWNYUQey_5FWdlu1iHT1aLAN_g4aKt76CspD_FRviUd9gjdw2E4twugptlmUVc5NJH6TYxklZFPp5Elijd9p5tfcJC5lEALqAwWNVSC2ep0lI0DOwht2onqLXpKp8zD8ViGcm0VnRrAM6Sk99w1H/s4032/IMG_0122.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyiSXpTih8FaYE1pjniM48r9GKW1j0jl88sBDffWNYUQey_5FWdlu1iHT1aLAN_g4aKt76CspD_FRviUd9gjdw2E4twugptlmUVc5NJH6TYxklZFPp5Elijd9p5tfcJC5lEALqAwWNVSC2ep0lI0DOwht2onqLXpKp8zD8ViGcm0VnRrAM6Sk99w1H/s320/IMG_0122.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-206e077b-7fff-9cf6-4c77-f64c47067cf1"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paying Attention to Your Grateful Intention</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Expand your AWE of Grateful Presence</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The greatest present is the pleasant. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kindly count your blessings as your intention or explore whatever speaks to you.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other possibilities to focus on are:</span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live simply</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laugh freely</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Give easily</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speak kindly</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think calmly</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love deeply</span></p></li></ul><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s plant seeds of our grateful potential! Separation creates suffering doesn't it?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also allow our curses to be transformed into blessings. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magical light arises when we pay attention to the intention of thankful possibility giving us new potential and purpose. When we see the world with this compassion and insight –yes this frees us.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WE light our candle to unify with</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> AWE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Awaken With Enthusiasm </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- fostering thankful intentions.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s chant AAAWWEEE</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UNITE with the intention to pay attention to AWE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Connect with this power of new potential, via making your dreams reality.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To help you embody any type of loving friendliness prayer like below:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May I be filled with peace, love and new possibility</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May all beings in this room be filled with peace, love and new possibilities.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May all beings living and non-living in all directions near and far be filled with peace, love and new possibilities.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now if you wish to do a longer meditation and picture yourself as you're in a balloon going up and up, extending this prayer call things in this, home, town, county, state, region, USA, both Americas, planet and universe. All being past, present and future in all dimensions kindly shower with new love, light and possibilities.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After this guided inner prayer, observe everything that comes up. This attitude of gratitude will free us from the dark hole that constantly challenges us.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Is the bird in the sky or the sky in the bird? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now let’s pair up so we may pray together not prey on each other.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each person kindly asks the other person the 3 questions below. Also the person who is listening kindly be fully present to what your partner is sharing as a form of meditation.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each pair please engage in this appreciative inquiry regarding the following questions:</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1) Does this benefit you to pay attention to a specific intention such as gratitude?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2) How can you better respect people, places and thing?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3) Does this ( paying attention to the new intention of possibility) bring you greater freedom??</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keep on keeping on in expanding our positive portal of love - remember we are the change or light beings</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After this kindly close your eyes and allow whatever image of your lighting your inner candle. As she told us to say....</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you feel so inspired you can write, draw or use whatever artful medium to best remind yourself to foster gratitude or whatever virtue that channels your highest power.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember- Pay attention to the intention of thankful possibilities.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explore the power to unite with this illuminating energy as you light your inner candle. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Liberate yourself with an attitude of gratitude.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Awaken With Enthusiasm </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- fostering grateful intentions.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s chan</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">t AAAWWWEEE</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UNITE with the intention to pay attention to AWE of thankfulness. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My intention is to be a living love poem and this is what I wrote;</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Move H off Heart, place at the end</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It spells earth, your best friend</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listen to the birth high above</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dolphins singing of deep love</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rock, air, fire and rain connect</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are all related one divine effect</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illuminated play with rays cycling</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All souls unite, a great recycling</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Optimize kindness first letters. OK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meanness and fear bring us dismay</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If your mood begins to decline</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recharge yourself and fully align</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stand with your back to a tree</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Its pure energy will set you free</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embody this grace and be still</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engage yourself with this skill</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quiet your thinking, hear your breath</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Allow your spirit go beyond death</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no beginning or an end</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All things unite in a timeless band</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Darkness your foe and light a buddy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcRhKJGLEPVnzwSFtbWgRcy8a8zqhTwUGBLf62es8QtAWKwALZ5bLhvf_qMYN_vkSBxMQXx-zx-qnwVAFgaTQmMqoJE7WuzwmkfGk2eNDB9BjwgDmakmkBm5nQ-yxal8nmErNN04xJ4CruGlWBWaX2WLYJ9PXcWF7XuGvB55UTqLk55uv2hD9Cx_gO/s4032/IMG_0297.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcRhKJGLEPVnzwSFtbWgRcy8a8zqhTwUGBLf62es8QtAWKwALZ5bLhvf_qMYN_vkSBxMQXx-zx-qnwVAFgaTQmMqoJE7WuzwmkfGk2eNDB9BjwgDmakmkBm5nQ-yxal8nmErNN04xJ4CruGlWBWaX2WLYJ9PXcWF7XuGvB55UTqLk55uv2hD9Cx_gO/w320-h240/IMG_0297.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br />Kiss the soil even if it's muddy</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laugh and love we are one</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A cosmic dance and have fun</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Circle around the healing medicine wheel</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feel the star-shine and its cosmic appeal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Add up the beneficial ways that respect</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Subtract your suffering, do not expect</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's a inside game of showing gratitude</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Expanding yourself with a higher attitude</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increase acceptance, lessen any resistance</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Expand your AWE of grateful presence</span></p><br />Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-65239931842979164312022-06-01T13:14:00.002-07:002022-06-01T13:18:28.912-07:00Earth Love Poem<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5ego-tDTPwivrxRn5EEr3KuAU0sIeqrpRogb7s9_AejuWXjTX_8lpvr0P52-g6Ig7UjY7wh3v5W9_DADDr_IQsPCUQ8IzY21vAg-EYONHaDmUgL56fx3o16EqoMpxlz5e_sAXf6fzmhJD79IG4VgcAK6EZxrp5EKbBc5z_JmdJWbAQJdn-P-d6a_/s4032/IMG_0298.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5ego-tDTPwivrxRn5EEr3KuAU0sIeqrpRogb7s9_AejuWXjTX_8lpvr0P52-g6Ig7UjY7wh3v5W9_DADDr_IQsPCUQ8IzY21vAg-EYONHaDmUgL56fx3o16EqoMpxlz5e_sAXf6fzmhJD79IG4VgcAK6EZxrp5EKbBc5z_JmdJWbAQJdn-P-d6a_/w259-h323/IMG_0298.HEIC" width="259" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Move H off Heart, place at the end</span></b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">It spells Earth, your best friend</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Listen to the birth high above</span></b></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a55ea99e-7fff-540c-05f2-4cefb436f681"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Dolphins singing of deep love</b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Rock, air, fire and rain connect</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>We are all related one divine effect</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Illuminated play with rays cycling</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>All souls unite, a great recycling</b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Optimize kindness first letters. OK</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Meanness and fear bring us dismay</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>If your mood begins to decline</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Recharge yourself and fully align</b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Stand with your back to a tree</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Its pure energy will set you free</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Embody this grace and be still</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Engage yourself with this skill</b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Quiet your thinking, hear your breath</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Allow your spirit go beyond death</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>There is no beginning or an end</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>All things unite in a timeless band</b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Darkness your foe and light a buddy</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Kiss the soil even if it's muddy</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Laugh and love we are one</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>A cosmic dance and have fun</b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Circle around the healing medicine wheel</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Feel the star-shine and its cosmic appeal</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Add up the beneficial ways that respect</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Subtract your suffering, do not expect</b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>It's a inside game of showing gratitude</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Expanding yourself with a higher attitude</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Increase acceptance, lessen any resistance</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Expand your awe of graceful presence</b></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLZARYoPw7JQ8IEDWdDpQAEUyEogTSQ2QfM48RwOlGC18BL-bBpvstc-_rVFXDy9Nd6O6WaBEYssku22xy07b6vpmlSOGQPt1TFahjs0oMOFQJ7YqZ8i2VMr65PgcAsB4GxIZhY2R65UQ9pybuOICgRF8VR692X2nHtxtm5iDdzWJXoQgVvuME-6g/s4032/IMG_0294.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLZARYoPw7JQ8IEDWdDpQAEUyEogTSQ2QfM48RwOlGC18BL-bBpvstc-_rVFXDy9Nd6O6WaBEYssku22xy07b6vpmlSOGQPt1TFahjs0oMOFQJ7YqZ8i2VMr65PgcAsB4GxIZhY2R65UQ9pybuOICgRF8VR692X2nHtxtm5iDdzWJXoQgVvuME-6g/s320/IMG_0294.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">For me<b> ART</b> is a the metaphor for living life. <b> A</b> for me is about<b> Acknowledging</b> all my blessings and all things especially the mystery. <b>R</b> for is me is about<b> Respect</b>, treating everything as divine or sacred. People, places and things all have a unique and special place and role. Finally<b> T</b> is about <b>Transform</b>, or how I best use those things that are here and now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">There are so many forms of ART and ways to be an artist. Expressing my gratitude is my ultimate form of motivation to apply my creativity to show my thanks. Acknowledging what is true, Respecting this truth and Transforming this truth to be of greater service. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Rumi once acknowledged, “<i>there are hundreds of ways to kneel down and kiss the ground.</i>” This for me is a natural remedy for my “dis-being-at-ease” or mental disease. I sometimes visualize a vibrant white light with mystical power mending my broken heart. Accepting this truth is my first step toward liberation. The power of healing spirit surrounds us if only we can skillfully perform a sort of heart surgery. Since all our “issues are in the tissues” what about the ongoing involuntary circulatory pump that symbolizes not just our compassion but also the source of courage. Acknowledging what is truly happening gives me new possibility toward greater freedom.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Respecting life is truly showing up. We are at critical time where the spirit of earth is knocking at our individual and collective doors. Can we show our respect and allow it in? I wish to liberate myself by opening my heart to a greater reverence for life. How I respect what is deep in my soul is a fearless act.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">When I transform my attitude toward things I become gentle with myself This transformation of kindness is the final artful step. Our very earth and body are screaming out to be seen, heard, healed and prayed for and we can transform the here and now by listening .</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Quieting my mind and listening to my heart is how I have been transforming my stress to see the opportunities it creates. If I can show up with the good and bad while treating them as equals. Showing up to what transforms my heartbeat I can learn how to manage it and reverse the damage stress and worry can cause. I believe the all wise and enlightened being have found peace this way. If I can transform my consciousness to find my heart, the more grace and inner peace I can cultivate.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Wise teachers from the beginning of time have learned about the power of ART allowing us to mend our broken hearts. Just acknowledging positive feelings such as appreciation, care, or compassion, I can create dramatic changes in my heart rhythms. Exercising respect lessens my stress and anger and leads to my greater well-being. This then transforms a chain of biological changes including lessening blood pressure and stress hormone levels. I can increase my immune system activity, and anti-aging hormones by simply focusing on my heart energy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">ART engage my heart, body, and mind into balance. Quieting my mind and acknowledging my heart widens my sense of respect and transforms my worst shadows. ART provides me with the courage to be present to even the greatest things that haunt me. Whether things are a blessing or a curse, Rumi writes about ART when he said;</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Be grateful for whatever comes.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Because each has been sent</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">As a guide from beyond.</span></i><br />
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May we all awaken with this exercise of <b>A</b>cknowledging truth, <b>R</b>especting life and <b>T</b>ransforming our hearts!</div>
Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-17039088925219738182015-03-16T05:27:00.002-07:002015-03-16T05:27:40.297-07:00 Initiation Song from the Finders' Lodge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Please bring strange things. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Please come bringing new things. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Let very old things come into your hands.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Let what you do not know come into your eyes.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Let desert sand harden your feet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Let the arch of your feet be the mountains.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Let the paths of your fingertips be your maps</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">and the ways you go be the lines on your palms.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Let there be deep snow in your inbreathing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">and your outbreath be the shining of ice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">May your mouth contain the shapes of strange words.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">May you smell food cooking you have not eaten.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">May the spring of a foreign river be your navel.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">May your soul be at home where there are no houses.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Walk carefully, well loved one,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">walk mindfully, well loved one,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">walk fearlessly, well loved one.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Return with us, return to us, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">be always coming home.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">- </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ursula LeGuinInitiation Song from the Finders' Lodge</span></span></div>
Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-9816103147805429472013-12-15T06:36:00.001-08:002014-01-07T14:17:12.155-08:00Teaching Tennis and Meditation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Four-plus decades of teaching
tennis has been a form of meditation for me I call “PRO focus zone.” There is
emerging medical evidence documenting how mindfulness improves stress
management and other facets of well-being.<br />
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“presence.” The acronym PRO – Pause, Relax and Open – can help expand the
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Getting my students to “pause” between points
and slow down – becoming more responsive and less reactive – increases their concentration
during play. Next, getting my students to “relax” and focus on mentally showing
up can both lessen errors and increase my students’ accuracy. Finally, I coach my
pupils to “open” themselves to play to their full potential. </div>
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Teaching “PRO focus zone” is the
practice of imparting grace to the entire body/mind experience of learning this
game. The mind becomes quiet and the body listens, observes and responds to how
a student can have fun as a better tennis player. Both meditation and tennis
share what is most critical: fine tuning when you make exact contact with the ball.
Focusing on this specific contact point of racquet on the ball is a lesson in
meditation. </div>
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I teach my novices how to catch
the ball on the strings with a simplified overhead stroke. I point out the
vibrant popping sound when the ball precisely hits the middle of their racquet
strings. It is fundamental for my students to diminish their errors and improve
consistency. Exaggerating my students’ errors creates fun learning. I get them
to hit two to 10 balls in a row. I urge them to place their shots away from me.
I run them and make them realize how better it is to move instead of being
moved. I do many drills around these two lessons of consistency and placement. </div>
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I start off each morning by
sitting in a tranquil, still way with relaxed attention. When I become more
gentle and friendly, I can then observe more clearly the nature of my mental,
emotional and physical activities. The “PRO focus zone” certainly applies to teaching
tennis and dealing with my clients in similar fashion. </div>
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Clarity comes when I observe more
and foster observance of the nature of “being.” The key in both teaching and
meditation is to observe rather than judge, otherwise we become hindered by
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As a PRO, I “pause” calming my
mind and body. Pausing lessens my stress in whatever tennis instructional
activity. Relaxing allows me to arrive in the present instead of wandering off
in the past or future. This also lessens my student’s tension. The more I
“relax,” the more my student “opens” to whatever I may suggest. When I become
more “open” I discover what is most important for my student’s learning.
Instructing tennis reveals various points of concentration that enable one to
expand moment-to-moment attention and improves play. </div>
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As I instruct from a response
mode, I model “mindfulness.” When I pause, relax and open to the “PRO focus
zone” both my student and I arrive at a common contact point. We celebrate
pausing, relaxing and opening. Teaching the volley is an excellent example of
learning responsive grace. </div>
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Instructing tennis is a form of
meditation since my focus allows me to teach awareness in the here and now.
Just as a camera lens clicks, I develop a shot-by-shot process to be with and
listen to my tennis sense or a clearer focus and understanding of my student’s
shot possibilities. Countless hours of exploring how my students can tap into
their bodies’ sensations can best direct their attention to sharpening their
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Teaching “PRO focus zone” is the
practice of imparting grace to the entire body/mind experience of learning this
game and expanding their technique. When I get my students to find greater
alertness and relaxed play, I guide them to their “PRO focus zone.” </div>
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The more I can facilitate my
students to find their “PRO focus zone,” the more they can direct the
destination of their shots. I prompt my lesson to “arrive,” with placing the
ball in a high percentage area (e.g. the service line T) that troubles future
opponents. </div>
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As I plant seeds of specific
intentions, I also alert my students’ attention to find their own “PRO focus
zone.” By simply directing my pupil to hit the ball at the bull’s eye instead
of just the larger target, they increase their chance for the ball to arrive
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Many of my students hold their
breath when following through on their shot. Reminding them to inhale on back
swing and exhale on follow-through has assisted many of my students to improve
performance. Getting my students to exhale with a calming “aaaaahhhhhh” sound
or saying yes is another skillful tip. </div>
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Mindful tennis is how I get my
students to pay greater attention to their “PRO focus zone.” I like the
metaphor of rock climbing to understand this mindset of moment-to-moment
awareness. It is a process of being alert and awake to how each moment unfolds.
Greater attention comes to my teaching tennis when I constantly center my
students’ numerous mind/body awareness skills. Visual cues are critical for me
in skillful instruction since improved hand/eye coordination requires specific reference
points in space to increase tennis shot execution, thus enhancing “PRO focus zone.” </div>
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When teaching large clinics or
camps, I become the eye of the hurricane where there is calm consciousness
surrounded by the flurry of tennis activity. If I have to teach the entire day,
then I focus on effortlessness, and when I remember to lessen my resistance I benefit
more.</div>
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My “PRO focus zone” is about
enjoying teaching and the fun exercise that results. I challenge you to find
any great superstar that does not have some sort of “PRO focus zone.” I
illustrate shots with a sense of effortlessness. I guide my student to enter the
“PRO contact zone:” a flow state to improve their tempo of effortless effort
(knees, hips and shoulders working in unity). Work is transformed into a ballet
of play. </div>
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I extend the “PRO focus zone”
into positive stroke visualizations of how to gracefully hit the shot. Using
exact mental images of championship form is how Olympians prepare for their
gold medals. Imitating the pros creates a positive visual. This lessens
distractions, doubt and other counter-productive thoughts. </div>
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“PRO focus zone” cultivates
skillful mental exercising. Pausing, relaxing and opening my students with this
alertness creates a heightened state of play, and a focus on awareness. In
turn, concentration can resolve aspects of your game that feel stuck, creating
new flow. Increased awakening from moment-to-moment tennis play allows me to
excel. </div>
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I joke with my students by asking
if they are “Re-Creation” or “Wreck-Creation.” Relaxing in the now with a sense
of alertness is what I define as grace in the “PRO focus zone.” Tennis is your
object of meditation. Arriving in the “PRO focus zone” happens when you teach
and learn to pause, relax and open. </div>
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<i>For further information please refer to </i><a href="http://awakenedwithexercise.com/">http://awakenedwithexercise.com</a> and or <i> www.eztennistips.com.</i></div>
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<u>A few helpful on court tips:</u></div>
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•
Develop the routine between practice sessions where you Pause, Relax and Open
(PRO) to provide greater renewal, concentration and continuity in teaching. </div>
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Create the space – I establish a special space to remember to be a mindful
instructor.</div>
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• Visualize what to concentrate on – Relax and see yourself hit an ace.
Focus on being fully empty and graceful, and visualize how you will go forth
with your students. </div>
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• Establish a comfortable posture of being a grounded teacher
– As you instruct, stand upright, poised and balanced. Combine alertness and
openness, allowing your hands to firmly yet comfortably grip your racquet. Use
visual cues to be receptive contacts points such as where the exact point in
space you will toss your serve.</div>
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• Visualize relaxing yourself – Before key points
take a quick relaxing body scan: start at your scalp and move this mental massage
gently downward, letting go and relaxing and softening each part of your body.
Visualize yourself as a bowl of pure, clear, still water.</div>
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• Instruct with a
loving kind mind set – Empty and clear yourself with a loving, kind presence in
each moment stimulating fresh possibilities. </div>
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• Just be as you teach –
Effortless effort is go with the flow. Less identification more unification.
Transform the “I” with the “eye contact.” Nothing to resist, just be in the
moment. </div>
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• Awakening to teach mind/body sensations – Use this time out to
explore listening to and feeling the entire moment–to-moment experience with
your senses totally open. Explore any senses.</div>
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• Focus on a specific teaching
contact point – Select various contact points expanding your student’s “focus
zone.” </div>
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Just as in tennis when you make exact contact with the ball, it is the
most critical element of play. Focusing on this instructing contact point
deepens their mindful presence. Such contact points are: 1) Physical sensations
– contact of the ball 2) Breathing – exhale on follow-through 3) Sounds of
hitting the ball in middle of the strings.</div>
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<u>
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<u>Off the court helpful hints</u>:</div>
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• Sit
every day, even if it’s for a short period or several long pauses visualizing mindful
tennis play. Remember your ZEN – play is work, and work is play! </div>
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• Reflect regularly
on your aspiration for improving tennis instruction. </div>
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• Use inspiring resources
to cultivate further mindfulness and awakened tennis skills.</div>
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• Remember off the
court you can observe and lessen the judgement; accept what unfolds so as to
awaken how you can further teach tennis. </div>
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• Meditate with a teaching intention
and instruct greater attention – awaken with exercise. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>Finding my center is an exercise of
being aware in every moment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gathering and
consolidating energy is much more beneficial then scattering it. Simple things
like riding my bicycle or driving my car are examples as to why it is important
to be mindful and centered. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Centering
requires a focused presence. As I expand this centered awareness it also
welcomes a new level of happiness. Bringing a focus to my physical experience
with a keen awareness on how my body feels in the “now” excels my potential.
When I climb up a ladder I understand why it is important to be aware of each centered
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Centering I better observe what is
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Centering is about listening to
oneself at a core level. By becoming more focused I arrive with greater “hereness”
and lessen my mind chatter. Such a simple practice of checking into my body gives
me the opportunity to listen to the beat of my heart. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Center what is present at any given second
gives me greater vitality. This exercise allows me to just “be”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting me out of my head into my physical
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Experiment on centering by first
getting yourself in a comfortable sitting posture. Next place your attention to
come into your body. Watch how your lungs fill up with air and then how you
exhale. How does the air touch your nose or mouth? Feel how your bottom
connects with your chair, your feet with the floor. Explore by taking a quick
body-scan. Feel the heat or tingling of your skin. Notice how you can relax
your muscles, mind and bones when you are more sensitive to bodily sensations.
Observe what happens when you pay attention to your physical senses how they
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As you focus on this bodily quality
become curious about it, yet limit thought to a specific texture, temperature,
and the quality of this body feeling (e.g. tired, restless, energetic, nervous,
pulsating). What is happening now in your body? Now wait several minutes and
see if what is happening is still happening in the same way. Centering always
brings you back to core body sensations. Does it change much or just shift
slightly? Is there a kind of easing or opening, a sense of being firmly
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The power of centering comes when
you shift from your head to your body. With an interested attention do you
notice what is now going on with your body?<i> </i>Reframe what is
going on by centering your physical self beyond emotions. Invite yourself to
become playful and fully explore all aspects of your body. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bring a creative quality to this
exercise. Center yourself so to observe your body like a changing weather
system? Does your stomach make noises?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Have you changed your breathing? Can you open, and soften so to release
any tension in your body? Does relaxing help you find a better center?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like an eye of a hurricane relax find
the stillness in the middle. Let go and relax, just observe you center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without
resistance come to your core, whether you soften any of your muscles or release
tension in from your feet, ankles, calves, knees, hamstrings, stomach, back, shoulders,
throat, jaw, mouth, eyes or scalp. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply
bring your attention back to your body. Practice awakening to finding your relaxed
center. Center, be, breath and enjoy! </span></div>
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meditation for me I call “PRO<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=449146709102685943#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
mindful play.” Playing tennis in the brutal summer
heat is the foundation for my mindfulness practice in relaxing in the “now.” Also,
playing tennis presents many “mental” weather systems to learn from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Increasing my concentration on how to play
with little effort, I give my fullest intention to pay attention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enjoyable tennis play has allowed me
to reach greater “presence.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The acronym
PRO- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pause, Relax and Open </i>can help expand
my wakeful play— arriving fully in the present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I “pause” between points and
slow down-- becoming more responsive and less reactive-- increases my
concentration during play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next when I
“relax” and focus on mentally showing up I lessen my errors and increase my
accuracy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My introduction to mindful tennis first
began when I asked my first question to my own tennis guru, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pauline Betz Addie. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forty years ago my first question when I met
Pauline</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">was, “What is the most
important thing in learning tennis.” This </span>world champion and trail
blazer for pro tennis<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> replied, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Concentration</i>.” She was my Zen
master: her work skillfully instructing tennis was her play. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two years
ago on Pauline’s 90th birthday, I asked Pauline’s oldest tennis friends if she
knew anything about her perfect finals match. Nancy Dillon replied that
she watched the entire match. Nancy lost the round to Catherine Wolf
in the semis. Pauline in 1943 won 48 straight points - a perfect match- in the
Tri-State Singles Championship. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1986,
Pauline and I (both former Edgemoor Club Pros) won a perfect set playing doubles
against a close friend and then Head Pro at Edgemoor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Playing in
the “PRO focus zone” is a graceful body/mind experience of enjoying this game.
The mind becomes quiet and the body listens, observes and responds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being present is and makes me a better tennis
player. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Both meditation and tennis share
what is most critical: fine tuning when you make exact contact with the
ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Focusing on this specific contact
point of racket on the ball is a lesson in meditation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First just catch the ball on the
strings with a simplified overhead stroke and hear the<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> popping sound when the ball precisely hits the middle of their racket
strings. It is fundamental for my game to diminish my errors and improve my
consistency</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.
When I become more gentle and friendly, I can then observe more clearly the
nature of my mental, emotional and physical activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Clarity comes when I observe more and foster
observance of the nature of “being.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beneath
the entrance to the center court of Wimbledon there is a non-judgmental Rudyard
Kipling quote, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If I can meet triumph and
disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Key
in excelled play is to observe rather than judge, otherwise we become hindered
by such identification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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As a PRO, I “pause” calming my mind and
body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pausing lessens my play. Relaxing
allows me to arrive in the present instead of wandering off in the past or
future. The more I “relax,” the more I “open” to whatever arises. When I become
more “open” I discover various points of concentration that expand my moment-to-moment
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When I pause, relax and open to the “PRO focus
zone” I improve my contact point. The volley is an excellent example of this
responsive grace. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tennis
gets me to focus in the here and now. Just as a camera lens clicks, I
develop a shot-by-shot process to be with and listen to my tennis sense, or a
clearer focus and understanding of my shots. Countless hours of exploring
how I can use my body sensations has sharpened my game and expanding my technique.
When I find greater alertness and relaxed play, I also find my “PRO focus
zone.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
example, when I focus on hitting a tennis ball in the middle of their strings
and notice the sound the ball makes when it meets this sweet spot. The
more I find my “PRO focus zone,” the better I make and direct my shots. I
best “arrive,” with placing the ball in a high percentage area (e.g. the
service line T) that troubles my opponents. When I hit the ball at the bull’s
eye instead of just the larger target, I increase my consistency. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes
I hold my breath when following through on my shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reminding them to inhale on back swing and
exhale on follow-through has assisted many of my students to improve
performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting my students to
exhale with a calming aaaaahhhhhh sound or saying yes is another skillful tip. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mindful
tennis is how I pay greater attention to my “PRO focus zone”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like the metaphor of rock climbing to
understand this mindset of moment-to-moment awareness. It is a process of
being alert and awake to how each moment unfolds. Visual cues are critical for
me in skillful play since improved hand/eye coordination requires specific
reference points in space to increase tennis shot execution, thus enhancing my “PRO
focus zone”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My “PRO
focus zone” is about the fun exercise that results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A different type of tennis “zero-love” comes
when I empty myself to just be “here and now”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I challenge you to find any great superstar
that does not have some sort of “PRO focus zone.” I attempt shots with a sense
of effortlessness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guide myself to
enter the “PRO contact zone”: a flow state to improve their tempo of effortless
effort (knees, hips and shoulders working in unity).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Work is transformed into a ballet of play. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I extend
the “PRO focus zone” into positive stroke visualizations of how to gracefully hit
the shot. Using exact mental images of championship form is how Olympians
prepare for their Gold medals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imitating
the Pros creates a positive visual. This lessens distractions, doubt and other
counter-productive thoughts </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“PRO focus
zone” cultivates skillful mental exercising. Pausing, relaxing and opening with
an alertness helps me heightened my level of play. This practice both unfolds a
greater understanding, and it shifts me to an more aware game. In turn,
concentration can resolve aspects of my game that feel stuck, creating new flow.
Increased awakening from moment-to-moment tennis play allows me to excel.
Relaxing in the now with a sense of alertness is what I define as grace in the
“PRO focus zone”. Tennis is my object of meditation. Arriving in the “PRO focus
zone” happens when <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pause, relax and
open. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(For further information please
refer to </span><a href="http://awakenedwithexercise.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://awakenedwithexercise.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and http://eztennistips.com) </span></div>
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few helpful on court tips:</span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Develop
the routine</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> between practice sessions where you
Pause, Relax and Open (PRO) to provide greater renewal, concentration and
continuity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Create the space</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
– I establish a special space to remember to explore effortlessness.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visualize what to concentrate on</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">– relax and see yourself hit an ace. Focus on being fully
empty, graceful and visualize how to hit the next shot. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visualize relaxing yourself </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">– Before key points take a quick relaxing body scan: start
at your scalp and move this mental massage gently downward, letting go and relaxing
and softening each part of my body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visualize
yourself as a bowl of pure, clear, still water.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Play with a loving kind mind set- </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">empty and clear yourself with a loving
kind<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">presence in each moment stimulating fresh possibilities. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flow- </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">effortless effort is go with the flow. Less </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">identification more unification. Transform the “I” with the
“Eye contact”. Nothing to resist, just be in the moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Focus on a specific contact points</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–select various contact points
expanding your <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“focus zone.” Just as in
tennis when you make exact contact with the ball it is the most critical
element of play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Focusing on your contact
point deepens their mindful presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such
contact points are: 1) Physical sensations-contact of the ball 2) Breathing-
exhale on follow-through 3) Sounds-of hitting the ball in middle of the
strings.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Off the Court helpful hints:</span></i></b></div>
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long pauses visualizing mindful tennis play. Remember your ZEN-play is
work and work is play! </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reflect regularly on your aspiration for improving tennis
play. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Use inspiring resources to cultivate further mindfulness
and awakened tennis skills.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember off the court you can observe, and lessen the
“judgment”; accept what unfolds so as to awaken how you may enjoy greater
tennis fun!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></li>
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Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-70254517531587635202012-12-12T02:34:00.002-08:002012-12-12T02:34:50.955-08:0012:12:12- AWE Exercise of Our Collective Right Brain <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is the last repeating-number date of the century, holds profound
emergence of unifying psychic exercise. 12:12:12 marks a shift to our creative right
brain where the unity and oneness resides. There is a new beginning of
observing and at the same time - an ending of judging with the logical left
brain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New alignments, opportunities will emerge as we reframe how we shift our mind-set. This is a
celebration of our collective neural networks shifting from the left to greater
balance with our right brain. As a species we can change from reactors to
responders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mayan and other ancient
teachings of 12:12:12 now shine upon us with pure crystalline light of new
possibilities if we are so bold to make this alignment. <br />
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This enlightenment of awakening gives birth to a new collective story. We no
longer need to be so dominated by our logical left brain <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function</span></i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">).</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
old cynical one dissolves and fades away. Wise people see 12-12-12 transforming
us into a new portal opening into a vortex, unity consciousness, or a rainbow
bridge, creating a bridge into the 21st of December 2012 – a beginners mind moment
of new prosperity and possibility. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>12.12.12 is not just fantastic numerology but
where the sum of the parts become whole and the circle is no longer broken for
those who dare to wake-up with this shift in consciousness. <br />
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12/12/12/ invites us to celebrate and ascend both in Science and
Spirituality. We now as a people share with the experience of Near Death
Survivors <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience).</span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profound out of body experience can
activate our consciousness even when our body no longer functions. 12:12:12
is a wake-up call since anytime now allows us greater conscious choices, via transformative
understanding that we are all tied in by a light interconnection with web of
life encompassing Gaia or our greater body, our beloved Planet Earth.<br />
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Healers and teachers see 12:12:12 as an amazing alignment.<strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span> </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Star gate</span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>12:12:12<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>portal merging<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>with the<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> December Solstice </span>–
were an amazing amount of light filled with Cosmic Love divinely expanding over
the entire Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like all cycles we
will experience both endings and beginnings, in our bodies, minds and spirit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>12:12:12 is both a Cosmic
Completion & Re-birth and there are no accidents that 1+2+1+2+1+2 = 9, or 3
x 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>equals the mystical, number Nine since
it represents the end of a cycle in the decimal system. If you multiply nine by
any natural number, and repeatedly add the digits of the answer until it is
just one digit, you will end up with nine.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12:12:12</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">is a remembrance of what</span><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">indigenous cultures never forgot: all things are
related, connected, and interdependent. Everything we do matters, everything
affects everything else in unpredictable ways! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Celebrate 12:12:12 is
the birth of a creative</span><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">,</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
integrated shift in our living planetary system. As Earth Beings’, we are all
related to all things. As we change our attitudes and views so will our dream
of the world will manifest from our present nightmare of being separate and
alone. This Great Turning for many years has been evident. Hundreds of Millions
of us have been celebrating in more sustainable and harmonious actions </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8.0pt;"><a href="http://www.celebrate121212.org/"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.celebrate121212.org/</span></a>)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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A peace of mind instead of a violent mind-set is essential if this collective
body wishes to continue. Aligning ourselves with this Crystalline Light of unconditionally
plants news seeds for our future. We can wake up to this Crystalline Light by
shifting from left brain to right. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
shift in thinking has boundless qualities to lessen our suffering and increase
happiness. All we have to do is exercise with the first AWE step – to courageously open our heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By quieting our mind we find there are no
limits since greater acceptance and forgiveness emerges from this heart opening
experiences. Such unconditional surrender creates an amazing vibrational frequency
and resonance that exponentially expands out overcoming our collective fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also other hindering negative emotions become
dissolved as our immense love expands. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
wisdom of our heart overcomes our fears caused by too much thinking creating greater
fearlessness. This allows us to shift into a higher dimensional awareness
of unconditional love. </span></div>
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This last repeating-number date of this century, offers a profound AWE exercise.
We can do the same old paralysis analysis or explore greater liberation. 12:12:12
is a door opening to our creative right brain where the walls of our logical
left brain can drop down like a drawbridge. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A crystalline road awaits this new road
exploring our right brain. Crossing this rainbow bridge of pure light takes
courage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond the numerology of 12.12.12
our real home is awaiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The question
is can we fearlessly exercise with AWE, let go our dominant left brain so to find greater oneness
with our right? </div>
Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-16710029117263473522012-06-09T07:54:00.002-07:002012-06-09T07:54:46.415-07:00Increasing our Brain Fitness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">Advancements
in brain science documents amazing new findings.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">Our brains are plastic; meaning they can be
reformed both with positive and negative results.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">For example while walking looking at the
ground results in negative neural plasticity since this unskillful act
increases our senses of imbalance and increase our chances to fall.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">Our mind is like is like a dirt path where
we create grooves into it and deepen them as we use it more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For example physical
exercise and other activities can strengthen our neuro networks. Specific forms of exercises can improve the
neuron gain and synaptic connection thus strengthening cognitive function where
the brain was once damaged or unused. Challenging
activities creating positive plasticity increases our brain fitness. Intensive therapy has proven to correct
traumatic neural damage. Key is being
motivated to more fully use our mind instead of lose mental ability due to lack
of use. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Neural
plasticity provides us the possibility to teach ourselves to change certain
mental activities. Thinking about our thoughts differently can shed our burdens
and problems. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mindful
attention can refine our thinking and behavior.
Working on our attention thus changing what we are regulating and what
we are paying exact attention on. A
conscious perception can make or heighten our attention to what thing we are
focused on. Intensive training or
intentional control can help our brains to prosper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Just as we re-refine our golf or tennis swing
so can we modify our mind. As we greater
explore our neuro-modulators refine increasing our sense of wellbeing. Also brain fitness stimulates our natural
chemistry improving our wellbeing.
Keeping our minds to function better has been show to enhance a brighter
more cheerful life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our ability
to affect change is our belief to leave our comfort zones. We become users instead acquiring ability or
new skills. As we venture into new
fields or new task or challenging ourselves in focus into new ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <i>Brain Fitness Program</i> (</span><a href="http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/12/02/brain-fitness-program-and-neuroplasticity-pbs/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/12/02/brain-fitness-program-and-neuroplasticity-pbs/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">) cites there are seven keys for us
to mentally advance;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tenet 1-
Change can only occur when we are in the mood.
If I am alert on the ball and the chemicals of the brain become released
become on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Change happens when I can increase my brain activity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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3- When my brain fires together the
mental activity becomes wired or stays together. We become more integrated. Use it or lose it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Initial changes are just temporary. If
it really engages us or has significant meaning then we never forget it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brain plasticity is a two way street with both positive and negative results. Chronic pain syndrome or developing bad
habits we have the ability to rewire our brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Memory is crucial for models. Brain has a magical way of self-correcting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tenet 7-
Motivation is a key factor in brain plasticity. What do we fear or hate to motivate us or
what we love and cherish? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">New skill
acquisition and refined learning activity creates this new plasticity. When the
brain becomes newly engaged and awakens by new, refreshed, changed activity. Also heart and cardio exercise stimulates new
brain cells and increased wellbeing.
Mental training needs to be taxing and difficult to do. Also it must be interesting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Playing a piano,
chess, bridge, and a variety of mental challenges including meditation
stimulates this new growth. As we are
motivate to being a better person, both our life and mental become more full. Mental fitness requires enthusiasm to venture
out and find new interests and become more engaged with our environment. This new spark creates more joy since as we
infuse spirit stimulating increased body and mind activity. Bottom-line, use it or lose it depending how
we exercise and how we train to become more mindful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-48833030732606083832011-04-05T20:28:00.000-07:002011-04-05T20:45:03.989-07:00Using Our Body to Awaken to Now<h3 class="post-title entry-title"></h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5173901174082768619"><div style="border-style: none none none solid; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-right: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0in 12pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; padding: 0in;">To foster greater understanding of myself I use my body to be in the now. This adds to my wellness. For example being aware in the moment enhances my quality of life. Also such attention is critical to my well being. Riding a bicycle or driving a car are examples as to why it is important for me to be mindful. As I expand my awareness I discover a new level of happiness. Combining my physical experience with present mental awareness excels my performance. If you ever climb up a ladder you understand why it is important to be aware of each step.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; padding: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; padding: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; padding: 0in;">Developing a sense of observing what is going on in the body helps me better understand how my emotional experience changes my perception. Cultivating awareness of body sensations I can observe, instead of judge, what is going on. This is the key step for me to explore broader perspectives. Examination of my body/feeling takes me beyond my emotional stories and that imprison me. Observing sensations can help free me since I become less identified with my narrow mental perspective. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; padding: 0in;"><br />
Checking into my body allows me to better see whatever arises. I can experience how my lungs fill up with air and then go down with my exhale. How does the air touches my mouth? How do I make contact with my chair? As I slow down I feel the tingling of my skin. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; padding: 0in;"><br />
Also I can see how all things arise and fall. Can I feel a tightness around any of my muscles and let them dissolve? Just watching my experience for several minute shows me how all things come and go like a changing weather system.<br />
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Becoming mindful I shift my attention from my head to into my body. Also I set an intention to notice and reframe things beyond emotions. I invite kindness and gentleness in this reflection. What feels better-holding your stomach and chest up or allowing your belly to soften? I become friendlier in whatever comes up.<br />
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Taking time to notice things in a bodily way I awaken with this exercise. Examining what arises in my consciousness in the now offers me a sense of awe of how my mind works. Such a attentive being connects rather than separates. Life is about the awe of interconnections, interactions and interrelationships.<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Mindful attention </span>awakens my world with this skill to use my body to be here and now. </div></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-right: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; padding: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; padding: 0in;"></div></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-right: 30.6pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; padding: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color black; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-right: 30.6pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"></div><div style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color black; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-right: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"></div><span style="font-size: 85%;"><i><span style="font-family: ";">For more information go to <a href="http://www.focusing.org/"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">www.focusing.org</span></a></span></i></span></div></div>Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-14419093329664264662011-04-05T19:31:00.000-07:002011-04-05T19:31:04.700-07:00Heart Exercise or Heart@Cize<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7800865639819036403"> We have the opportunity to exercise our heart in a very sacred way. Let's celebrate our greater love for this beloved earth with bountiful forms of exercise and play. As we explore new ways to have fun we also can expand our possibility of joy and mirth. When we more deeply listen to our our heart we can cultivate a greater <span style="font-style: italic;">ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE</span>. Some examples of the possibility of this soulful exercise are: <br />
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• Paying attention to our heartbeat getting us our of our head allowing us to celebrate what we Love!<br />
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• Placing your hand over your heart and say <i>WHAT IS RIGHT</i><br />
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• Awakening: <span style="font-style: italic;">SOUND FROM A YAWN TO A SOOTHING AND RELAXED AHHHHH !</span><br />
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• Specific <span style="font-style: italic;">PHYSICAL EXERCISES BY PAYING ATTENTION TO OUR BODY SENSATIONS CHANGING OUR BRAIN CHEMISTRY.</span><br />
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• Rewiring our brain activity. Since our mind is attracts negative emotions like velcrow we transform this to teflon. Taking this velcrow and applying it to our positive experiences awareness. <br />
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CULTIVATING GREATER SELF LOVE WITH LOVING KINDNESS HEART@SICE RITUALS<br />
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We can exercise with simple rituals that cultivate greater self compassion. For example we can reward our self for what we do that's positive. Also we can forgive our self when we make mistakes. This is not always easy. Only when we remember to Heart@size we can pay attention to exercise loving kindness. When we set an attention to cultivate peace, contentment, and basic well-being we also invoke deeper states of concentration and insight. As we encourage what's right we create greater positive events to become positive experiences. Any way we show our gratitude or count our blessings then expand further possible positive experience. Thus increase our chances of seeing good things in all things, increasing acts of kindness and respect for facets of our life. <br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">HEART@CIZE</span> happens when exercise our GRATITUDE, LOVE, ACCEPTANCE AND DEVOTION </u></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7800865639819036403"><u> (GLAD) –</u><br />
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GRATITUDE- reflecting on the good things in your life today or in the past. <br />
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LOVE- of self world and all thins, Feeling loved, cared about, liked, included, attended to, empathized with – BE included, belonging. CREATE goodwill toward SELF AND others. Quieting our mind and listening deeply deep to our heart. <br />
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ACCEPT- our worth and value. When the Buddha touched the ground when challenged by the forces of darkness to say "I am here, now one with this sacred earth" - We can become free to exercise our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness since when we accept all things then we become liberated. <br />
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DEVOTE- dedicate oneself to exercising the heart for the benefit of all beings and things we skillfully find our higher self. <br />
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Heart@sice- just imagine a huge celebration or party in your heart replacing old feelings of shame or inadequacy with feelings of being glad. The more we exercise our minds and bodies the greater potential for joy happens. What's right? Let's celebrate what we have and use it fully or face the negative consequences. Heart@cise or exercise your love by being glad, grateful, loving, accepting and devote our self to greater well being. </div>Awakening With Exercisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01324762750254633311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449146709102685943.post-33497532070288773692011-04-05T13:26:00.000-07:002011-04-05T13:36:43.699-07:00Relax Now!<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="padding: 0in;" valign="top"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Relax Now!</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> is just one example of AWE. Stillness is key relaxation techniques including deep breathing, mindful movement, visualization, muscle relaxation, and meditation. Such techniques reduce stress levels, improve health, and increase feelings of joy and serenity. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You greatly benefit when you to tap your full relaxation potential.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> In addition to developing essential calming skills, <i>Relax Now!</i> will enhance your energy, sharpen your focus and provide tools associated with enhanced wellness.</span></div></div></td> </tr>
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<tr> <td style="padding: 0in;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One example of a highly effective stress-relief technique is to focus and relax various parts of your body. We start relaxing the feet and gradually work our way up the body to release muscle tension everywhere. Other relaxation techniques include cultivation of mindfulness with a deep focus in the present moment, simple visualization exercises, and use of the breath to lessen both mental and physical tensions and to maximize your fullest relaxation potential.</span><br />
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