The Tortoise and the Hare

I was hiking in an open space preserve with my daughter and I had another epiphany. 

She was running ahead, as she is almost 5 and full of energy.  I was walking – plodding along.  She kept running off and then stopping because she was tired and had to rest.  I was in a nice pace and as I approached her, I just kept walking because I knew that, pretty soon, she would get up and run again.   She did.  She did this over and over.  She had a great workout and so did I.

At one point she asked me to run with her.  I told her that she is a runner and I am a walker.  My body, at almost 42, doesn’t want to run as much as walk or swim.  I can swim very fast, but when it comes to gravity based sports, am not the win.  She is.

Going fast is a rush.  People seek this adrenalin high the world over.  I have heard that one can hit Nirvana.  I have done this in my youth and I remember feeling absolutely beautiful at times.  I know this feeling and I understand the craving for it.  As a runner, one can hit a pocket where time stands still and the ‘zone’ is reached… a runner’s high they call it. 

In our society, we are rewarded for winning.  Whoever is the fastest, most beautiful, has the most money, most toys seem to be revered and regarded as royalty.  The technological breakthroughs of our lifetimes are all geared towards speed; doing things faster with ease and rampant with shortcuts.  However, there is one piece missing.  We seem to be getting farther away from closeness with others and in that we are further from ourselves.

Walking definitely has its own grace.  To be able to be in peace while walking is its own gift.  I can see things that other people running or riding a bike miss.   Talking with another person is easier while walking; where chatting while running is almost impossible. The human and earth connection gets sparse the faster we go.

I found a very important spiritual awareness came about me when I looked at what Thea, my daughter, was showing me by running ahead and then having to stop when she was tired. 

The classic old tale of The Tortoise and the Hare came to mind.  Later when I was reflecting upon the day, I saw the metaphor it held for our Hearts and the Minds. 

The Hare = the Mind and the Tortoise = the Heart.   

When we let our minds lead and run rampant, we get into trouble and expend too much for too little distance.  We have to stop and rest or we get hurt from pushing ourselves when we are exhausted. 

Slowing down enough to stay in a natural walking rhythm aligns our body, mind and spirit with the natural rhythm of our heartbeats.  The footsteps we take as we walk are in fact markers on our Earth-walk. 

The environment is more alive when we walk.  We can be mindful and attentive to the subtle nuances in our vision.  Runners miss this and so do bikers.  They miss the moments… the synchronicity of the clouds as they align with a birds wings and the song of that same bird as it lifts upon the wind.  Our hearts like to look at the scenery and absorb the surrounding.   Our minds are trying to run away.  In slowing down we assimilate so much more ---

With the Hare-Mind going so fast; all we can hear is ourselves; our thinking.  This idea is illustrated by racing thoughts, as the mind tries to figure out WHY, WHEN, WHAT, WHO, HOW… data, data, data.   

As the Tortoise; we can begin walk in unity with all that is around us and thusly be closer to the Great Spirit.  With soft feet we can feel the Earth beneath us carrying is, supporting our footsteps.  Every step we take is sacred…

There is something to be said for running.  I have heard it does clear the mind, but like a drug, it is temporary…

In walking and becoming mindful of our surroundings and our footsteps on the good earth, we can arrive in a central harmonic and even meditative heart-over-mind space and be at one with the Universe in a peaceful, tranquil and serene way. 

It is harmonious…  It is non-combative.  It is the steps which honor the Home in which we Live and Love.

The Tortoise knows because Heart Wisdom is greater than Head.  The Head is the follower… the Heart leads.  Head is where Ego Lives and Heart is where Spirit Loves.

The Tortoise Loves --- The Hare Lives.  The Hare ‘thinks’ it knows… it has convinced itself that what it’s doing is ‘good’  - even better than the Tortoise.  It laughs at the Tortoise and speeds by.   The Tortoise sits in its humility and sometimes feels humiliated… but… In the long run…

…or should I say long walk…?

--- The Tortoise Wins ~*

;o)

Slow and steady wins the race…

So, set your pace with ease and Grace…

~*Namaste *~

The Balloon Test

Life is like a balloon.

I have an almost five year old daughter and she loves balloons.  She can have so much fun with a balloon.  She’ll bop it around for as long as she can!

It’s a good toy for inside as it doesn’t break anything and can be retrieved easily by kids of all ages, even grandparents.

There is an art, however, to the inflating of them.  A well inflated balloon will float; while an under inflated balloon will sink like a submarine. 

Balloons are like life in that you get out what you put in.  If you have fear that the balloon will pop and you stop short of fully filling the balloon with enough exhaled air, you get the submarine.  However, if you gage the inflation with sensibility, then you get a nicely inflated balloon which will float and bring joy to everyone.

It’s amazing how much joy one balloon can give!  We really are all like balloons in that if we are not filled with enough joy or life, then we falter in bringing our essential gifts forth to the world.  Inflating ourselves with enough of the good things and trusting that we can push our own spiritual balloons toward greater fullness gives us the gift of sharing our love and joy with others.

If, however,  in fear, we lack the courage to fill our spiritual balloons with enough air, which is in effect ‘prana’ ~ the Breath of Life ~ then, we will never know our own innate capacity to feel that fullness of Spirit and we will never know the *Magic* of that Joy and Love when we share it with others.

One thing I can say to amateur balloon inflaters is that you have to learn to trust that when the balloon gets to a certain size, you will know when it is at its threshold.  The balloon will tell you!   “If you blow me up anymore… one more breath… I WILL POP!” 

That is exactly when you tie it off… and let loose!

Kids laugh, scream and shriek at the sheer joy of a balloon bopping around.  I don’t know if it is the color, how it moves, or the personality of a balloon that makes kids so happy, [maybe all of the above] but I do know one thing for sure – it sure creates a lot of joy and that is what matters most.

So, inflate your balloons to their fullest extent… Don’t be scared that they will pop… if they do… say “OH!” laugh and try again!  It’s only a piece of plastic made out of a rubber tree and it’s worth the pennies it costs to buy one.

Have fun boppin’!

Namaste ~*

LOVE & FEAR

It has been said in spiritual circles that Fear is the absence of Love and you cannot feel Fear if Love is fully present.  Love blasts Fear right out of the water!

A friend recently wrote me about an insight she had where Fear created a spiritual awakening in her process of spiritual evolution.

Most people live with a lot of fear.  Religion hounds it home, telling us to be afraid of God and that if we are bad, perform badly or act out in ‘bad’ behaviors we will be punished.

Our society runs on it actually… we have jails, institutions and wars to show this forefront ideal.   

And… it all starts in childhood.  We are told that if we do ‘this’ we get rewarded and if we do ‘that’ we get punished.  The world of duality creates this love and fear tactic; acceptance vs. rejection…

Later in life, hopefully, when we as humans have evolved emotionally and spiritually, we begin to see this forefront ideal.  The duality begins to thin as a veil worn over time.  One can begin to see through this veil and if very lucky, sweep it aside and see the light underneath it.

When we get to a place where this light is, we can begin to see that this light is actually all there is and that this light is Love.  It actually permeates everything; all of the time.  We just have to lift this veil to see it.

The air can be filled once more with Love.  The frigidity and smallness of Fear can actually be blown away like sand covering a mirror.  Tiny fragments of particle physics known as the illusion to some and reality to many.

We are blinded daily by TV sets telling us what to see.  A television screen used to be glass which is actually melted sand.   Nowadays it is some fancy plasma created screen so that more pixels can permeate our vision than ever before.  So much so more real don’t you think? 

Think about it… the TV is so real and so lifelike to watch, how does the brain know the difference?  The answer is simple… it does not.

Quantum physics shows this clearly in that the brain does not even know the difference when we truly laugh and when we fake it. 

In the rooms of recovery they even have a saying “Fake it ‘till you make it.”

I recently went to a Laughter Yoga class at a friend’s house.  The same friend who had the spiritual awakening around Fear and she told us that scientifically it has been proven that laughter heals us and that the brain actually does not know the difference between real laughing and fake.  It emits certain chemicals into the body which heal the body and raise the frequency of the immune system and lower stress.  One of these chemicals is cortisol.  Cortisol helps the brain and body communication be more fluid and thus allows for more ease of the organic system we inhabit while on our earth trip as spirits in the flesh.

It’s wonderful!  What an amazing thing!  To be able to heal ourselves by laughter!

Now TV and Fear, namely the News shows that permeate TV every hour now; show and make us afraid.  The News is not Comedy.  It does not make us laugh.  It makes us afraid and thusly ill.  It ages us where laughter makes us younger, or at least keeps us where we are supposed to be.

So, in order to change our reality we really need to stop feeding into the Fear system and shift gears into the Love system.

I got a wonderful email a few days ago from a fellow healer which said:  “Love is the new Religion.”  I love that!  It’s perfect and great!

I am not professing to have this nailed, but simply to state that as a part of this collective consciousness as we are, that I fully intend to - as much as I am capable of as a human being and as a mother – give my full focus and attention whenever possible to this idea of LOVE and to steer [WAY] clear of anything resembling Fear.

Fear simply does not compute… It has worked as a motivator and a controller, but there must be a kinder way to do that. 

How about shifting to doing deeds I want to do, so it is not as much of a ‘I have to scare myself shitless to do it’ deed?  That sounds like a good idea to me.  To become a Creator ~*   That is what I desire… To get into that flow of creating… being an open channel so that the Love of the Universe [One-Verse] can flow through me and I can positively affect the Matrix and contribute to the flow of that ONE LOVE idea.

The more we all can do this… the better off the future will be.  If we teach our children fear, that is what they will be – afraid.   If we teach them Love, then they will feel secure in that and that is the biggest gift we can give them.

The juvenile halls are filled with kids who have gone astray [WAY] due to parents who use drugs and alcohol and never knew real Love.  They are empty vessels waiting to be filled.   Sending Love to these pained places in our own souls can heal the ones who have lost so much already.

There is a way out.  Meditation and emitting a Love vibration can heal geographic areas.  This has also been proven scientifically.  In areas where people meditate and are mindful and conscious of this higher Love vibration – there is less crime.

So… think about it… FEEL IT… Open to the idea that YOUR HEART has a wisdom greater than your HEAD.  It even speaks its own language… and usually… it is between the Lions.

Namaste ~*

The Truth, Perception, Portals & Gateways

Ok.  Let’s cut to the chase.  I am an Indigo Star Child from Orion’s Sun Belt and I am here and have come here to tell the truth and gift this dimension with some insight. 

We all have access to this whether we are aware/ awake or not.  We utilize portals and gateways daily through our television sets, computer screens, i-pods, i-pads and cell phones.  All of these devices are middlemen to what we can actually do all by ourselves in our own ‘spacesuit’ of skin we call a body.

To understand this concept we have to first examine the idea of perception.  Awake or not, we can become aware of a certain knowing about things as they are and things as they seem.  Things as they are depict our 3-D world and all the things in it.  Things as they seem depict that which is transmitted through these tele-portal devices from outside sources designed to control the flow of which we receive data.  This goes for media of all kinds.  There are a huge number of people who work in media and advertising who have been aware of this construct of flow of attention for many years now.

There is no accident that we are all being ‘guided’ along some kind of path.  Don’t for one minute think you are immune to the affectation of this ‘flow’.  

Being an aware/ awakened being means that you are aware enough and can detect the matrix.  We can all affect it when we become mindful and strong on the inside due to this ‘knowing’ place within.  

This was the idea in The Secret.  The idea that we can, when aware, create and change our reality through thought and intention.  The Celestine Prophecy also dealt with the levels of this.

When we remove the screens and the idea of separateness; then we can begin to discover the infinite possibilities that our minds and bodies through intention holds.  The mere idea that we can change our reality with a thought is a revolutionary one.  

We have all heard of the Butterfly Effect.  It is a chaos theory which says that when a butterfly flaps its wings in the rainforest it can alter the course of systems which in turn can cause or deter a weather change, such as a hurricane or tornado.   

Similarly, we can affect the entire Universe with a thought.  One person meditating can make an impact on crime in areas of population condensation.  It has been studied that areas of cities where people are meditating more, there is less crime and more peace. 

It has also been shown through Quantum Physics that we affect water with our thoughts.  Dr. Masuro Emoto  [referred to in the film – What the Bleep do we know]  showed scientifically that our thoughts and feelings do affect water and if we are made of 90% water then we directly affect each other.  [I recently tried laughter yoga and smiling for long periods of time… my whole life changed!]

We are all portals.  When we step away from the portals that tell us how to think, or suck our brains out with their manta rays – radiation, and we get into nature and absorb and transmit our true essence vibration – that of sound, love and light – we feed the matrix with that energy instead of being directed puppets at the whim of others who tell us [tell-a-vision] what to think, do, buy or be.

It has been shown that one can live on less food and less belongings in a healthier way spiritually.  It has been shown that plants can learn to sing when hooked up to a midi amplifier and sung to.  They sing back!  [It's on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YltW6kmTLSQ&feature=player_embedded#at=206]

Everything is alive here!  Even the rocks!  Everything has a pulse.  I have found many gifts when holding feathers… Meditating with a feather is an amazing thing.

When we can find that space in-between the spaces and turn off the gadgets and feel the wind, heat, breeze, rain or snow on our skin… we can come alive!  Be in that moment. 

Change the channel.  Don’t buy those lies… how do you know it’s the truth?  Question it.  If a child sits in front of a news show for hours and hours, do you think that child would be a happy child?  Do we want a reality full of lower vibrating energies or do we want to raise that frequency?  Your choice.

It is time to think for yourself.  If you were to design a world… would you design it like this?

I think I would change quite a lot of things myself… 

Think about it…   NOW.

Protect your mind.  Screen your portals.  Clear and clean your gateways…  shut off the screens and go outside – LOOK AT THE STARS…  Feel them.  Be with them.  They are your brothers and sisters shining down upon you… twinkling in love & light.  Be with them…be them… you are them… a star.

Stand on the Earth without your shoes on.  Feel the temperature of the Earth. Beneath your feet – is it grass, dirt or sand?  Feel that and be with that feeling.  Let it rise up your spine and into your cranium.

Look at the animals.  Are they happy?  Sense them… what do they need?  Ask them and listen.  Don’t run to the TV, the phone or the computer.  Look, listen & learn.

Feed what is good… prune what does not serve that good. 

IT IS TIME.

Namaste ~*