Quickening: Rhythms of Change
Self Mastery is a very personal experience. When conveyed through inspirational stories, others create their own mastery; and that's really good news!

April 30, 2010

Self Mastery: Connection or Enmeshment?

Connection: We are always connected spiritually through the Universal web; a state of complete presence.

Enmeshment: Entangled, invalid, wanting, not present.

We are driven by needs not only to connect, and everything else that underlies our motivation underneath it: the need to be recognized, validated and known as someone who participated, contributing something to someone during our lives.

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Musings & Meditations

   "Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness, it will be a song of meditation. It will be a song of an alone bird calling in the distance - not calling to somebody in particular, but just calling because the heart is full and wants to call, because the cloud is full and wants to rain, because the flower is full and the petals open and the fragrance is released... unaddressed."

- Osho



Awareness & Alchemy

Take a moment to relax, sit down, breathe deeply with your eyes closed. Bring your attention deep into the Center of your Head, your awareness falls back behind your eyes, almost to the back of your brain. Inhale and feel the breath clearing out your thoughts as it moves through your nasal passages into your head; exhale and release down your spine.

What color do you see inside your head?

Observe your attention inside of you while you look out beyond your body to the subtle energy field around you. Intentionally call back your energy from wherever you may have left it. Just observe.

Allow it to settle into your body; it also surrounds you, top to bottom, front to back. Now the outer edge of your energy field sits about 18 inches from your body; its inner edge gently caresses your skin.

How do you feel?

Try this in public, try it when you are with a friend. Try this when you are with family members. Be aware of the difference between you and the next person. Do it for a week and notice what happens in your relationship to yourself and with others.



Enlightenments & Education

Opening to Spirit I:
Exploring Ceremony, Healing & Intuition

Opening to Spirit II:
Balancing Sun & Moon, Fire & Water

These online courses, complete with audio accompaniment, will guide you with restorative yoga poses, breath, visualization and creative assignments toward your own self-mastery. Available at $33 each for one more month (through May 31, 2010), prices will increase on June 1, 2010 to $69 each.

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Keystones & Kingpins

Chocolate, as research shows, increases activity levels, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol, and reduces hunger. It also elevates mood and balances emotional activity deep in the mid-brain. In a more esoteric sense, it also helps to open and balance the 6th chakra!

More chocolate news: Are you aware that approximately 26% of Americans 18 years and older have been diagnosed with some type of mood disorder? According to recent studies, depression is the leading cause of disability between ages 15-44.

Now for the good news. A neurotransmitter called Phenyl ethylamine (PEA) found in our brains is also found in great quantity in chocolate! This natural compound is known to increase neurotransmitter activity and relieves depression in 60% of depressed people.

For more information or to purchase healthy, cold-pressed, pure, clean chocolate, go to:

Chocolate Jewels of Nature

Cold pressed: not cooked so the beneficial ingredients are still in their natural form; Pure & Clean: a minute amount of raw cane sugar is added for palatability.



Conservation Concerns

You might remember the first "Quickening the Rhythms of Change" newsletter reported a way to save water by using a soaking tub for dishes before placing them in the dishwasher as well as how many gallons of water were saved each month as a result of that method. What was never said is this:

Just the other day I used 3 gallons of water to wash and rinse 9 small dishes and glasses; that was shocking! I know this because I rinsed them over a sink tub and then measured the amount. They were presoaked so extra water wasn't used to remove hardened food. Imagine how much water is used to wash and rinse your dishes each day if you don't soak first or use a dishwasher.

If you drink eight, 8oz. glasses per day, this amounts to six days of drinking water!

There are many new dishwasher models on the market right now that save loads of water. According to statistics, we can now save 8 gallons of water using new Energy Star appliances versus a dishwasher made before 1994. A United Kingdom study shows that an average dishwasher uses 12-16 litres (3-4 gals) per load and hand washing uses as much as 63 litres (16.5 gals). For information go to:

www.waterwise.org.uk
One Green Generation



Self Mastery: Oneness & Individuation

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Becoming one of those famous double binds, this is an entangled net-mess in which two or more come together forever. Years down the road they don't know the difference between themselves, carrying thoughts, emotions and even physical ailments that meet and match one another. Everyone is in co-dependent pain, together.

In what way do you suffer from feelings of disconnection, becoming unconsciously enmeshed in something or someone? At what point or under what circumstances do you choose to entangle yourself because you have forgotten who you are, that you are always connected and of value to the balance of all things?

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