Star Dust Abounds

Enlighten across the cosmic darkness

May One show merciful kindness

The merging of dark light in peace

Polar forces allowing a harmony to release

Dense clouds of depression appear

Birthing an inner courage overcoming fear

Breaking free to a wiser choice

In the shadows of star shine rejoice

Blessed new born so pure

A devoted well-being and cure

Solar medicine for spiritual illness

Healing by the silence of stillness

Awe and other heavenly assistance

Reducing pain and lessening resistance

Transmuting space from horrific fright

Releasing All with luminous light

All things enter this universal mix

Cosmic chaos, a mysterious fix

Interconnected by a galactic bust

Once again collective star dust

REawaken

The prefix of most words with Re transforms my world.  This prefix refreshes my perspective.   I find greater wonders when I rewire my brain.  Simply when I change my outlook when I remember and exercise renewed awareness.  With this widening circle of consciousness I reclaim greater prosperity in my life.  Changing my way I reference or refer to things reenhances my entire well-being.  Reshifting my mind and I reopen the doors to a fresh fantastic new adventure.

Reforming my emotional baggage such as worry, anxiety and other fear based feelings gets me to relearn to see the positive from the negative.  I can observe what is going on instead adding my own drama to my immediate reality.

First I need to recognize I have a choice to reawaken.  What lens do I wish to see things.  My old story which is like I am looking through a dirty window.  When I open to new experience then I activate my well being.   Years ago I shared with a therapist my feelings of anxious energy and how I felt like a buzzing fluorescent light bulb.  It has taken me many years to rediscover this feeling is my life force or chi energy. 

The difference is how I choose to perceive and look at my current circumstances Is filled with Velcro for the bad and Teflon for the good or vice versa? I can reformat my brain just as I can take the remote and change the T.V. channel. 

When I reawaken I enjoy greater freedom.  Fully arriving or reexperience  I can rejoice at whatever arises whether it is a blessing, or a curse.  Upon this reexamination I may find greater balance from these events.  I also can honestly reconsider how I feel, when I respond versus when I react.   

I can respond by pausing and reflect the cause and effect of what I do.  When a react I fell less like an actor or more like I am mindlessly a reactor.  Reawakening to face the consequences of reacting I fell less present in my reactions.  Responding I feel more responsible and thus more aware and liberated by my actions.

We live in times filled with escalating anxiety and worry.  However, I can renew my energy and reclaim new Chi. When I reframe my thoughts with the power of focusing on my specific intentions I reclaim this loss Chi.   Releasing myself from many of my negative mind-sets I let go of much darkness.  Now I can relight my ultimate potential with less stress and more well-being. The magic of reawakening with Re stimulates new possibility and potential.

Rejoy

When I reconnect to the mystical inter-relationships that cause all things in this world to work together, I experience what I call Rejoy!  The return to profound joy.

How is it that I ever separated myself from this source and hub of connectedness?  Surely, it must be my personal issues, my self-consuming concepts, mental conditioning, and habits, that trap me in fears and despair.  But then some of my silliest selfish wants will actually overstep themselves and remind me to let go and expand my heart.  With remembering…  putting it together again, comes the rebirth… the Rejoy!

I can get there by philosophical, cognitive, remembering of what I know about the unifying spider web that holds together all things created by earth, air, water, energy, and other sources.  These elements, all finite and ultimately transient, provide life for me and show me the sacredness of all things.  Networks of ecosystems exchange birth, death, and decay as energy material constantly being recycled.  I find liberation in this finite oneness.

Another way to get there is by observing nature.  When I look up to the star-filled night sky, this experience unites me with creation beyond what words may describe.  I touch a place without causes or conditions, an unlimited treasure of joy and grace.   My heart expands with greater loving-friendliness.  Such awakened oneness is not about ideas and beliefs, it simply generates a deep trust in the greater self, my divine nature.  Then my miserable issues dissolve like a cloud in the sky.  I deeply listen and become one through the transformative direct experience I call Rejoy!

A Virtuous Legacy

I am really inspired by the wonderful legacy that previous generations worked so hard to leave for us. In the spirit of making this world a better place, I want to continue this virtue by passing on to the future the gifts that have blessed me.

 

With the New Year coming, I am filled with amazing gratitude for things so simple yet fantastic, for example, the 3 billion beats of our heart that an average life celebrates. The message I want to gift to the next generations is a sense of wonder, awe and possibility. Once I was preparing to get a financial license to be of greater service. Then I had a revelation that it was Life Assurance, not life insurance, that I wanted to sell! I aspire to foster optimism and new ingenuity for the prospect of making the best of whatever life offers in the future. I want to show how peace and harmony always bring a sense of coming home.

 

Each letter of the word HOME helps me remember some of life's blessings that I want pass on.

 

Humility for knowing that I truly do not know. In my  quest for finding answers to life's mystery, I simply gather more and more questions.

 

Openness to the possibility of seeing something in a truly new way; beyond what I always thought, and new to the core of my heart.

 

Magic shows up everywhere when I pay attention with deep appreciation to the ordinary. And the simple intention to be of benefit or service allows magic to happen. 

 

Enthusiasm for all things.  Find the water in the desert. Find what is juicy beneath the dry and worn out.  This is where I enrich my well-being and expand to new frontier of awareness. Cherish all things and show reverence of even the difficult dark stuff. Being gentle with myself is my quest and lifelong challenge

After I leave this world to join the ancestors, may my legacy be the flight of a hawk, not a bulldozer building a parking lot. May I show thanks for the divine guidance that has come from my ancestors: to bestow kind and selfless acts. May this compassion and empathy expand and ripple outward just as a stone does when it is thrown in a still pond, spreading joy and well-being.

 

The key legacy is that I live in greater harmony, to focus on greater service. Have I been humble and generous?  Have I been open to new adventure and experience?  Have I shared my magic with all things?  And finally how has my enthusiasm created new ripples to inspire and benefit others? This quest best leads me home:  where my heart gently beats to celebrate my sacred time on this earth.

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.  They must be felt with the heart.  - Helen Keller

Centering

Centering is an exercise of maintaining awareness in every moment.  To gather and consolidate energy is much more beneficial than scattering it. Centering involves focus and being present in each second. When I climb up a ladder, I understand why it is important to be aware of each centered step. Simple things like riding a bicycle or driving a car are examples of why it is important to be mindful and centered. Bringing a focus to my physical reality, with a keen awareness on how my body feels in the “now” expands my potential for experience. I actually become aware of a new level of happiness and vitality in the "here". Like in the eye of a hurricane, relax and find stillness in the middle.
 

Such a simple practice of checking into my body gives me the opportunity to listen to the beat of my heart - listening at a core level. It allows me to just "be", getting me out of my head with its distracting thoughts and judgments. Beneath the mind chatter, this practice uncovers a deeper perspective on the greater self. Now I am beyond my emotional stories and the concepts that imprison me. Perhaps paradoxically, I can better observe what is happening around me and make fewer premature judgments about my present experience.

Where is The Center: the core; the heart; and the body?

What becomes centered:  Awareness and energy?

Experiment with centering by first getting yourself in a comfortable sitting posture. Next draw your attention 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 the 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 arise and fall away.

As you focus on these bodily qualities, become curious about them, but not in a heady way. Be curious in the realm of textures, temperatures, and the quality of feeling (e.g. tired, restless, energetic, nervous, and pulsating). What is happening now in your body? Then wait several minutes and see if what was happening is still happening in the same way. Centering always brings you back to core body sensations. Do they change much or just shift slightly? Is there a kind of easing or opening, a sense of being firmly grounded?

The power of centering comes when you shift from your head to your body, as you give it interested, friendly attention. Reframe what is going on beyond emotions. Invite yourself to become playful and fully explore all aspects of your body.

Bring a creative quality to this exercise. Does your stomach make noises?  Have you changed your breathing? Can you open, and soften so as to release any tension in your body? Does relaxing help you find a better center? See the body as like a changing weather system.

Let go and relax: just observe your center without resistance. Release tension by softening the muscles, from your feet, ankles, calves, knees, hamstrings, stomach, back, shoulders, throat, jaw, mouth, eyes, and scalp. Feel all these parts wake up as you become present to them.  Awaken yourself to your own relaxed center. Be, breathe, and enjoy!

Attitude of Gratitude

Every day let’s celebrate with Thanksgiving.   It is always a wonderful time to count our blessings. Appreciation constantly gives us the gift to cherish we are alive.  Generosity and kindness are the virtuous acts that will arise out of this thankful mind set.  Such gratitude may open new doors of possibility and divine relationship with all things.

Thanksgiving fosters peace and grace with all things evident of this altruistic spirit. We live in a critical time where generosity greatly matters. By giving, we both awaken and liberate ourselves. When we hold on to things too long this causes a painful form of separation. By becoming more mindful of how we take things, we can better return things and thus benefit from a achieving a higher level of freedom. Such responsible action comes from being humble and observing our ultimate interconnection with our mysterious world.

It's incredible that 67 million years ago trees, flowers, birds, bees and other things came into being.  Just 6 million years ago the first American migrated here. When whites came here at Jamestown, Virginia, Arthur Barlow remarked of the Poona's: "A more kind and loving people cannot be found in the world."

My ancestry dates back to the first born off the Mayflower. And this is doubtless why I believe thanksgiving is every day. We all ought to constantly count our blessings. The Iroquois celebrate their appreciation of this earth for days at a time, showing gratitude for all aspects of nature. Today we can share these wise earth teachings if we pay our respects to what we are so fortunate to have.

Each one of us can widen our collective circle of connection and love.  Now we have an opportunity to magnify our thanks by showing our boundless possibilities of compassion. If only we make this intention and take the time to show our gratitude.

Let us foster pure hearts, and act to make wise choices. Let's celebrate our Thanksgiving with plentiful kind and generous acts. There is divine radiance when we salvage things instead of destroying them. Giving back is the ultimate way of blessing ourselves, thanking our surroundings and feeling good about our life.

Earth Heart Intention

Earth Heart celebrates the unification of our body and spirit.  We all share, come from and return to, the earth.   Also we all are connected by a common thread of these earth elements: air, fire, and water.  We are one and the same with all things in this world. Everything is made up of earth including our flesh; bones, blood, organs and skin are comprised of these shared elements.

Awakening that our heart and the earth are tied together unifies and liberates us.  Seeing the interconnection that goes beyond the surface is an amazing extension of community.  Love and understanding enters greatly in this cosmic realization.  Such inner being is the portal to oneness and all being.  This is the highest level of consciousness; seeing the unity of all things.

Just as a tree nourishes us we nourish it with the air we breathe and the oxygen trees return to us.  All natural cycles balance life sustaining properties to sustain this world. All things we smell, taste, touch, hear, and feel connect some how in some way . For example all living things rely on water as does, carbon and other common elements.

Awareness equates with well-being, just as love of the planet elevates our consciousness.  Our collective heart guides us to the truth of our mutual connections.  Awakening to our common relationship with all things, comes through devoted contemplation.  Also stillness and a profound listening amplify this meditation.  This revelation for life frees us to fully see the universal spider’s web weaving together all beings and our greater oneness. 

There is universal collective exchange of love, light and nourishment.  Awakening to our greater truth allows us to fully arrive to our everlasting home, free and clear as the night sky.  There is no accident that both earth and heart share exactly the same letters.

Earth Heart Poem

May I see my greater connection where nothing is separate

May I listen to stillness and a profound form of hereness, fully present

May I observe the sacred bonds since all things are gratefully shared

May I know how all things are filled with air, fire, water, earth intermingling

May I contemplate on how my body and the world act in unity.

May I see that even things without life have a soul connection

May I behold how we all are related and share the same things

May we find our common bonds tied to a universal home

May we explore the deeper truth of our deepest origins

May we understand how we emulate nature and it emulates us.

May we harmonize our inner being with the greater all beings

May we give thanks and forgiveness to observe not judge

May we gather together to celebrate our common unity

May we be liberated, may we be free and clear