Emotions extended from Mindful SChools

...keep me in your heart... WtP

Sweet Darkness by David Whyte

Deer as Spirit of Mother Christmas

http://gathervictoria.com/2014/12/04/doe-a-deer-a-female-deer-the-spirit-of-mother-christmas/

Solstice blessings!

"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires ...causes proper matters to catch fire...Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.

If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times."

~Clarissa Pinkola Estés

art by sanguisGelidus

 — with Jen Marie, Jacqueline Plachta, Jean Bowen and fanona grac

morning Qigong

http://beginnersmeditation.info/blog/2015/04/morning-qigong-start-your-day-with-the-first-movements-of-baduanjin/

Solstice Blessings CEP

Solstice blessings!

"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires ...causes proper matters to catch fire...Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.

If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times."

~Clarissa Pinkola Estés

art by sanguisGelidus

JSJ opp fingers and toes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_89k7MsOI
back, hospital, CA toxins  etc

Death All is well.

Written by Henry Scott Holland (27 January 1847 – 17 March 1918) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford

reflexology points

20 illustrated quotes Lisa Congdon

http://www.buzzfeed.com/aaronc13/20-beautifully-illustrated-quotes-from-your-favorite-authors#.xiaPr05aka

Jin Shin J hand

jin shin resource videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN5GkX63Crk  intro
Robin McKay
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Jin+Shin+Jyutsu+holds&view=detail&&mid=D22A20256D770F98EA09D22A20256D770F98EA09&rvsmid=D22A20256D770F98EA09D22A20256D770F98EA09&fsscr=0
8 mudras for higher consciousness   MeaHutchinson

Rumi quotes

You have no idea how hard I've looked
for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to
the gold mine, or water to the ocean.
Everything I came up with was like
taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my
soul because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me.

~ Rumi

Winter protocols colds, flu, immunity

http://energymedicinenow.com/energy-medicine-moment/immune-boosting-protocol-for-winter/
Janie Chandler
http://energymedicinenow.com/watch/  other videos

http://acutakehealth.com/acupressure-library  for acup ideas

Client begins face down:

Gently rock the client

Open the head, neck and shoulders using massage and/or myofascial release

Spinal Flush

• Make one lingering pass along the posterior neurolymphatics (spinal flush)
• Put a few drops of essential oil blend along the spine, and distribute evenly with fingertips. Cover again with shirt or sheet and…
• Make a second lingering pass along the posterior NLs (spinal flush)

Feet

• Use fascial release around ankles, tops of feet, bottoms of feet with special attention to the spleen channel, from the big toe to above the ankle
• Deeply massage the gaits, heels, and the outside edge of the foot
• Twist and pull energy off each toe
• Apply 3-4 drops of essential oil to your hands, then apply to both feet, top and bottom, paying attention to the space underneath and between the toes
• Cover with sheet or socks and apply warm packs to the feet

Back

• Hopi Technique (optional)
• Sweep energy from opposite shoulder to hip and down the leg, repeat other side, repeat several times (essentially creating a big X on the back)
• Back hook-up (hold sacrum and power point, then mid-thoracic and power point, then power point and crown chakra)

Client turns face up:

• Replace heat packs on top of feet
• Massage occiput and head, pull out ears
• Hold powerpoint/third eye hook up
• Gently hold neurovascular points on head (main, and/or spleen above the ears)
• Work neurolymphatics on front using firm pressure (under collar bone, along sternum, central at armpits, under breasts, to the side of breasts, under ribcage, down outside of legs, up inside of legs)
• Clear Houston and Ileocecal valves
• Smooth energy down to feet
• Optional – sedate Kidney meridian if they seem especially toxic
• Strengthen spleen using acupressure points
• TW/Spleen hug with rocking
• Optional – (depending on time) Black Pearl or Brazilian Toe
• Smooth energy down from head to feet
• K1 Wave/ hold K1
• Ample figure 8s throughout the aura

Give client the immune-boosting beverage you’ve prepared.

Daily Energy Routines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv3DNaLh9VE  imaginal health Prune Harris

DER Donna end of 2015  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di5Ua44iuXc&sns=fb

http://midlifegoddess.ning.com/video/donna-eden-s-daily-energy-routine-official-version?xg_source=activity

madison king
http://midlifegoddess.ning.com/video  17 videos
do the foot  https://www.facebook.com/287253251377558/videos/483840175052197/?video_source=pages_finch_main_video&theater  and belt flow  yin yang flow

Once you are comfortable, take a few deep breaths and do the Teddy Boy Sweep [see description below] to calm down the Triple Warmer energy.

1. Now close your eyes and just focus on what you can HEAR – keep your breathing natural. Peel back the layers of what is going on around you and you will be astonished at what you start to hear. Remain with this for 2 minutes and if distracting thoughts come into your head don’t worry, just gently take yourself back to the sense of ‘hearing’.

2. Keeping your eyes closed, focus on what you can SMELL for a few minutes
3. Still with eyes closed, TOUCH something. Again, 2 minutes.

4. Focus, for a couple of minutes, on something in front of you and really SEE it.

5. If you are outdoors, ‘FEEL’ how the environment touches you: feel the breeze in your hair, the sun on your skin, or the rain on your face…. Bring ALL your attention to the sensations.

6. Bring your focus to your body, mentally run up it from your toes to the crown of your head and FEEL each and every part of it. This is not easy and sometimes when I do it I can’t ‘feel’ a thing, if this happens to you, just remain with it, sooner or later you will begin to ‘feel’, begin to reconnect with every cell in your body.

This reconnection is vital for our health and wellbeing. All too often we live in our heads and disconnect with our bodies, an alienation that can ultimately disrupt every system.

When you have mastered this ‘feeling’, take it a step further and isolate a particular part of your body and focus your sense of ‘feeling’ on it. I personally isolate my spine. Leaning forward slightly in the lotus position, to stretch it. I use my mind and feel along it vertebrae by vertebrae, really experiencing the sensations. If there is stiffness or pain, after a while it will begin to diminish and release. Don’t forget your breathing!

OPTIONAL - End by doing:

o a few Teddy Boy Sweeps [see below] and
o The Classic Hook Up [see below]
o tap your 3rd Eye to ‘tap in the feeling of peace and joy’ – by doing this, you will remember it more easily when the going gets tough.
o The yogic balance pose sit crossed legged and reach behind your back to clench your left wrist with the right hand, fingers of the left hand straight with index finger and thumb touching to form an ‘O’. Close your eyes, left up and lean forward from the hips so that you feel a stretch but no pain. Tune into your body and bring your attention to wherever you feel your body is in need of help. This is a great exercise to do by itself at the beginning or end of day.

Another benefit of coming to your senses is that by putting them through their paces they improve and ultimately, it may take a long time, once they reach optimum efficiency the other more esoteric senses begin to develop and emerge into the open.

A QUICK FIX

When you are walking to work, standing in a queue or doing anything mundane, such as ironing or making the bed, bring all your attention to what you are doing and what you can SEE, HEAR and SMELL. It will bring you right slap bang into the ‘present’ in a most enjoyable way.

Learning to live in the present moment is one of the most difficult things for us to do but there is an immense freedom when you begin to let go of brooding over the past and worrying about the future – you begin to bring back joy into your life.

This exercise is a slight variation of Donna Eden’s Covering the Eyes (www.innersource.net). It is perfect when we want to calm down Triple Warmer, begin to bring balance to her[1] and therefore reap the benefits of her working more as a Radiant Circuit than a lone maverick causing mischief. Also, as TRIPLE WARMER is KEEPER OF THE HABITS …. It will encourage good habits rather than bad.

It strengthens Spleen meridian so instantly our immunity and ability to process foods and emotional challenges is increased.

Thirdly it activates the Regulator Flow which is a ‘strange flow’ that helps us regulate and adjust to changes in our lives.  Us Healthy Goddesses are indeed trying to create a permanent shift and change so Regulator is a useful ally to have by our side.

We’ll start with Reactivity Pose

Go into Teddy Boy Sweep

Trace Regulator Yin

Trace Spleen

Hands over heart

With a smile

Repeating an affirmation such as:

Today I’m calm and strong, I make wise choices with ease. All is well.

• Rub your hands together and shake them off to get rid of any old, stale, tired energy. Place them over your heart.
• Close your eyes, feet firmly on the ground and take a few seconds to get grounded.
• Smile
• Breathing is natural (to you) throughout
• Put your index finger and thumb into a circle (think AOK)
• Place these over your temples and fingertips will naturally fall onto the forehead where they cover powerful, calming neurovascular points.
• Close your eyes and take a few breaths in this position.
• If you are uncomfortable with the thumb/index finger on your temples, just use your thumb (see diagram).
• Pull your fingertips out across the forehead to each temple then up over, down behind the ear, down the back of the neck and come to rest on the ‘necklace’ line.
• Press in here for a couple of seconds before pull both hands off the front of the neck and shake your hands off.
• Bring them back to the third Eye area between the eyebrows
• Close your eyes and connect into the area
• Trace a heart around the outside of your face
• Trace down the front of your throat
• Land on K27 points and buzz them
• Cross your arms like a genie, with little fingers nestling in the elbow crease
• Bring both arms up the top part of the arm until they are resting in Pharaoh position
• (Think of these ancient rulers sitting with crossed arms over their chests)
• Pull hands over chest to land on either side of breasts
• Give them a wiggle and think Marilyn Munroe!  Smile and for this one change the affirmation to OH! I’M SO BEAUTIFULand give a little laugh and wiggle your hips.
• Travel down the front of your body and squeeze the sides of your feet.
• Place fingers on the medial (inside next to air) side of the big toes and trace all the way up spleen meridian: up the front of your body, out a bit up over the ribs, into the armpit and down to the edge of the ribs
• Bring your hands over your heart area
• Take a few seconds to connect to your heart and a feeling of Love and gratitude

Make this the start and finish of each day for a week and see how you feel.

For the Regulator portion, if you are not sure – go on THE VIDEO TAB  and there is a clip of me doing it in the back yard!  

Madison King Calm Emo Cravings

Find a quiet corner in your home or go for a walk in nature and pick a safe, peaceful place to sit.

Ideally sit in the Lotus pose, but if this is not possible for you, find a comfortable position where your spine is straight. A straight spine is vital so that energy can more freely flow up and down the spinal column and therefore out to the entire body.

Once you are comfortable, take a few deep breaths and do the Teddy Boy Sweep [see description below] to calm down the Triple Warmer energy.

1. Now close your eyes and just focus on what you can HEAR – keep your breathing natural. Peel back the layers of what is going on around you and you will be astonished at what you start to hear. Remain with this for 2 minutes and if distracting thoughts come into your head don’t worry, just gently take yourself back to the sense of ‘hearing’.

2. Keeping your eyes closed, focus on what you can SMELL for a few minutes
3. Still with eyes closed, TOUCH something. Again, 2 minutes.

4. Focus, for a couple of minutes, on something in front of you and really SEE it.

5. If you are outdoors, ‘FEEL’ how the environment touches you: feel the breeze in your hair, the sun on your skin, or the rain on your face…. Bring ALL your attention to the sensations.

6. Bring your focus to your body, mentally run up it from your toes to the crown of your head and FEEL each and every part of it. This is not easy and sometimes when I do it I can’t ‘feel’ a thing, if this happens to you, just remain with it, sooner or later you will begin to ‘feel’, begin to reconnect with every cell in your body.

This reconnection is vital for our health and wellbeing. All too often we live in our heads and disconnect with our bodies, an alienation that can ultimately disrupt every system.

When you have mastered this ‘feeling’, take it a step further and isolate a particular part of your body and focus your sense of ‘feeling’ on it. I personally isolate my spine. Leaning forward slightly in the lotus position, to stretch it. I use my mind and feel along it vertebrae by vertebrae, really experiencing the sensations. If there is stiffness or pain, after a while it will begin to diminish and release. Don’t forget your breathing!

OPTIONAL - End by doing:

o a few Teddy Boy Sweeps [see below] and
o The Classic Hook Up [see below]
o tap your 3rd Eye to ‘tap in the feeling of peace and joy’ – by doing this, you will remember it more easily when the going gets tough.
o The yogic balance pose sit crossed legged and reach behind your back to clench your left wrist with the right hand, fingers of the left hand straight with index finger and thumb touching to form an ‘O’. Close your eyes, left up and lean forward from the hips so that you feel a stretch but no pain. Tune into your body and bring your attention to wherever you feel your body is in need of help. This is a great exercise to do by itself at the beginning or end of day.

Another benefit of coming to your senses is that by putting them through their paces they improve and ultimately, it may take a long time, once they reach optimum efficiency the other more esoteric senses begin to develop and emerge into the open.

A QUICK FIX

When you are walking to work, standing in a queue or doing anything mundane, such as ironing or making the bed, bring all your attention to what you are doing and what you can SEE, HEAR and SMELL. It will bring you right slap bang into the ‘present’ in a most enjoyable way.

Learning to live in the present moment is one of the most difficult things for us to do but there is an immense freedom when you begin to let go of brooding over the past and worrying about the future – you begin to bring back joy into your life.

This exercise is a slight variation of Donna Eden’s Covering the Eyes (www.innersource.net). It is perfect when we want to calm down Triple Warmer, begin to bring balance to her[1] and therefore reap the benefits of her working more as a Radiant Circuit than a lone maverick causing mischief. Also, as TRIPLE WARMER is KEEPER OF THE HABITS …. It will encourage good habits rather than bad.

It strengthens Spleen meridian so instantly our immunity and ability to process foods and emotional challenges is increased.

Thirdly it activates the Regulator Flow which is a ‘strange flow’ that helps us regulate and adjust to changes in our lives.  Us Healthy Goddesses are indeed trying to create a permanent shift and change so Regulator is a useful ally to have by our side.

We’ll start with Reactivity Pose

Go into Teddy Boy Sweep

Trace Regulator Yin

Trace Spleen

Hands over heart

With a smile

Repeating an affirmation such as:

Today I’m calm and strong, I make wise choices with ease. All is well.

• Rub your hands together and shake them off to get rid of any old, stale, tired energy. Place them over your heart.
• Close your eyes, feet firmly on the ground and take a few seconds to get grounded.
• Smile
• Breathing is natural (to you) throughout
• Put your index finger and thumb into a circle (think AOK)
• Place these over your temples and fingertips will naturally fall onto the forehead where they cover powerful, calming neurovascular points.
• Close your eyes and take a few breaths in this position.
• If you are uncomfortable with the thumb/index finger on your temples, just use your thumb (see diagram).
• Pull your fingertips out across the forehead to each temple then up over, down behind the ear, down the back of the neck and come to rest on the ‘necklace’ line.
• Press in here for a couple of seconds before pull both hands off the front of the neck and shake your hands off.
• Bring them back to the third Eye area between the eyebrows
• Close your eyes and connect into the area
• Trace a heart around the outside of your face
• Trace down the front of your throat
• Land on K27 points and buzz them
• Cross your arms like a genie, with little fingers nestling in the elbow crease
• Bring both arms up the top part of the arm until they are resting in Pharaoh position
• (Think of these ancient rulers sitting with crossed arms over their chests)
• Pull hands over chest to land on either side of breasts
• Give them a wiggle and think Marilyn Munroe!  Smile and for this one change the affirmation to OH! I’M SO BEAUTIFULand give a little laugh and wiggle your hips.
• Travel down the front of your body and squeeze the sides of your feet.
• Place fingers on the medial (inside next to air) side of the big toes and trace all the way up spleen meridian: up the front of your body, out a bit up over the ribs, into the armpit and down to the edge of the ribs
• Bring your hands over your heart area
• Take a few seconds to connect to your heart and a feeling of Love and gratitude

Make this the start and finish of each day for a week and see how you feel.

For the Regulator portion, if you are not sure – go on THE VIDEO TAB  and there is a clip of me doing it in the back yard!  

essential oils from livingtraditionally

http://livingtraditionally.com/the-real-truth-about-essential-oils-that-nobody-talks-about/ly

do terra   http://livingtraditionally.com/essential-oils/

from Clarissa Pinkola Estes When Evergreens Walked the Earth

Dear Brave Souls:

WHEN EVERGREENS WALKED THE EARTH

I think we are
like Scots Pines
Green and beautiful
cones of perfect
spiral labyrinths.

But then
the wither sets in,
the long needles
wave making a scratch
sound, only
dry and dead
can make.

Then skaggy
looking,
frowsy,
thinspy,
shed wrecked,
saggy socked,
soup too cold.

But/ and
then
bright
green
new
candles
again.
Then green
lush
cones
again.

Who
is to say,
and I mean
no disrespect,
that
we are not
the green Cristi
who was once
a majestic
evergreen tree
who lived,
died,
came back
from the dead.

And somewhere
in the BC times
or shortly thereafter
some forgot
tree and Being
were one...
and separated them
as the Being
dying
on the tree.
And the tree
not returning
to Life
and all exhorted
to wait til the Being
returned
perhaps yet
some thousands
of years
hence.

And who is to say
we cannot remember
how it once was
and understand
the radiant lesson
again,
and not
be waiting
and waiting
and being good
waiting
for the 'return,'
but daily
nightly
being,
being,
Being
in full creative spirit,
Being The Return.

This comes with love and hopes that you will remember what I call the 'night between two days' does not last, but passes. That it is not the life/death cycle. It is the Life/Death/Life cycle. Truly. In many many forms. To each her own. To each his own. As each sees fit, as each finds their own ways,
Dr.E.

CODA This poem was written in the 1960s when I was wondering about those in history, often dictators, kings, queens, 'royalty', clergy, war mongers, greed masters who had tried to take from all our native heritages-- that iridescent idea: that is, the reality that Creator and all of Creation are One, instead saying only this one side, ever separated from all of Creation, all of Nature---

and attempting to convince, punish, shriek, shame, cajole,condemn, all into not seeing the Unity that brings New Life every every every day and night. In cycles. Life/death/life, as I would write many years later.

Too back in the early 60s when I was a teenager, I saw, I thought, that this separation of most Radiant Being from all of Radiant Creation was then used as reason by far too many to slaughter more humans, animals, make clear rivers into filth flowing, pour mine tailings, poisons, sewage into the waters that nourished the animals and birds and fish, and without regard for estuaries or homelands for animals,

began plating over the earth, clear cutting her trees and clearing her natural grains and grasses, and laying down eyeless and earless brick armor across the land so the soil could not breath, and with smokestacks galore, neither could the humans breathe clear and clean.

Im of a mind still. The same. Some things remain the same as the angels whispered to us when we were helplessly listening as teens, to everything that was love....

image: wikimediacommons, public domain

the peace of wild things, wendell berry

Taining as a Warrior Pema Chodron

December 2, 2015

TRAINING AS A WARRIOR

Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wishing for them to be ventilated isn’t enough. Those of us who struggle with this know. Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we’re telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by a strong emotion, do we remember that this is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can’t practice when distracted but know that we can’t, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on. 

How to Be a Poet Wendell Berry posted by Parker Palmer