PRO- pause, relax open

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.  

 

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. 

 

Pause relax open PRO -become a champ not a chump

• Take a breath —pause relax and open to PRO

• Laughing rather than crying may I lighten up

• Champion each moment with peace, love and joy

• Be free to breathe whenever or NOT

• Be kind and gentle with yourself -well Yes 

• KISS —keep it simple, Sweetheart

• Be Free- Respond with ability

 

PRO liberates more possibility, potential and purpose. 

PAUSE, RELAX and OPEN to the wow of the now!

We All Are Stardust

 Enjoy your star time✨✨🌟 . 

Let the beauty you love be what you do!  Rumi

 

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.  

 

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.

 

We are all children of the stars! It is a quantum pool of loving kindness. 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, animals, insects, birds, fish consists, of this stardust

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

 

Cultivate the mirth and this rebirth. Play with the rays cycling above!  Take refuge by visualizing this. - be a Starshiner. 

We are all blessed children of the stars.

- be a Starshiner. We are all blessed children of the stars.

Starlight is becoming endangered, affecting both wildlife and humans. 

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. 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.

We Are All Natives

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.

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.

Teach your children.  What we have taught our children- that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth. Befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, They spit upon themselves.

This we know. The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth. This we know. All things are connected Like the blood which unites one family.  All things are connected.

Whatever befalls the earth, Befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life, We are merely a stand in it. Whatever we do to the stand in it. Whatever we do to the web, We do to ourselves. - Chief Seattle

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.

* The Grateful Warrior’s way is to know the right use of power -- to show up!
* The Compassionate Healer’s way is to extend love -- to pay attention to what has heart and meaning!
* The Balanced Visionary’s way expresses creativity -- to give voice to what we see!
* The Wise Teacher’s way is to practice wisdom -- to become open to all possibilities and unattached to outcome!

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.

* Live simply *Laugh freely *Give easily *Speak kindly

*Think calmly *Love deeply

Starlight Please

Starlight is becoming endangered, affecting both wildlife and humans. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Come see for yourself of our night sky  " Beautiful Daughter of the Stars."  Bathing in starlight is something all humans must experience.

We all come from and return to the stars.

AWE & Grateful Intention

 

Paying Attention to Your Grateful Intention

Expand your AWE of Grateful Presence

 The greatest present is the pleasant.  Kindly count your blessings as your intention or explore whatever speaks to you.

Other possibilities to focus on are:

• Live simply

• Laugh freely

• Give easily

• Speak kindly

• Think calmly

• Love deeply

Let’s plant seeds of our grateful potential!  Separation creates suffering doesn't it?

Also allow our curses to be transformed into blessings. 

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.

WE light our candle to unify with AWE

Awaken With Enthusiasm - fostering thankful intentions.

Let’s chant AAAWWEEE

UNITE with the intention to pay attention to AWE. 

Connect with this power of new potential, via making your dreams reality.

 

To help you embody any type of loving friendliness prayer like below:

May I be filled with peace, love and new possibility

May all beings in this room be filled with peace, love and new possibilities.

May all beings living and non-living in all directions near and far be filled with peace, love and new possibilities.

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.

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.

 Is the bird in the sky or the sky in the bird? 

Now let’s pair up so we may pray together not prey on each other.

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.

Each pair please engage in this appreciative inquiry regarding the following questions:

1)  Does this benefit you to pay attention to a specific intention such as gratitude?

2) How can you better respect people, places and thing?

3) Does this ( paying attention to the new intention of possibility) bring you greater freedom??

Keep on keeping on in expanding our positive portal of love - remember we are the change or light beings

After this kindly close your eyes and allow whatever image of your lighting your inner candle. As she told us to say....

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.

Remember- Pay attention to the intention of thankful possibilities.

Explore the power to unite with this illuminating energy as you light your inner candle.  Liberate yourself with an attitude of gratitude.

Awaken With Enthusiasm - fostering grateful intentions.

Let’s chant AAAWWWEEE

UNITE with the intention to pay attention to AWE of thankfulness. 

My intention is to be a living love poem and this is what I wrote;

Move H off Heart, place at the end

It spells earth, your best friend

Listen to the birth high above

Dolphins singing of deep love

Rock, air, fire and rain connect

We are all related one divine effect

Illuminated play with rays cycling

All souls unite, a great recycling

Optimize kindness first letters. OK

Meanness and fear bring us dismay

If your mood begins to decline

Recharge yourself and fully align

Stand with your back to a tree

Its pure energy will set you free

Embody this grace and be still

Engage yourself with this skill

Quiet your thinking, hear your breath

Allow your spirit go beyond death

There is no beginning or an end

All things unite in a timeless band

Darkness your foe and light a buddy

Kiss the soil even if it's muddy

Laugh and love we are one

A cosmic dance and have fun

Circle around the healing medicine wheel

Feel the star-shine and its cosmic appeal

Add up the beneficial ways that respect

Subtract your suffering, do not expect

It's a inside game of showing gratitude

Expanding yourself with a higher attitude

Increase acceptance, lessen any resistance

Expand your AWE of grateful presence

Earth Love Poem

Move H off Heart, place at the end

It spells Earth, your best friend

Listen to the birth high above

Dolphins singing of deep love

Rock, air, fire and rain connect

We are all related one divine effect

Illuminated play with rays cycling

All souls unite, a great recycling

Optimize kindness first letters. OK

Meanness and fear bring us dismay

If your mood begins to decline

Recharge yourself and fully align

Stand with your back to a tree

Its pure energy will set you free

Embody this grace and be still

Engage yourself with this skill

Quiet your thinking, hear your breath

Allow your spirit go beyond death

There is no beginning or an end

All things unite in a timeless band

Darkness your foe and light a buddy

Kiss the soil even if it's muddy

Laugh and love we are one

A cosmic dance and have fun

Circle around the healing medicine wheel

Feel the star-shine and its cosmic appeal

Add up the beneficial ways that respect

Subtract your suffering, do not expect

It's a inside game of showing gratitude

Expanding yourself with a higher attitude

Increase acceptance, lessen any resistance

Expand your awe of graceful presence

ART of AWE

For me ART is a the metaphor for living life.  A for me is about Acknowledging all my blessings and all things especially the mystery.  R for is me is about Respect, treating everything as divine or sacred.  People, places and things all have a unique and special place and role.  Finally T is about Transform, or how I best use those things that are here and now.

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. 

Rumi once acknowledged, “there are hundreds of ways to kneel down and kiss the ground.” 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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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;

Be grateful for whatever comes.
Because each has been sent
As a guide from beyond.

May we all awaken with this exercise of Acknowledging truth, Respecting life and Transforming our hearts!