Guidelines for Being Human

1 ~ You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
2 ~ You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them to be irrelevant and stupid.
3 ~ There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "works."
4 ~ A lesson is repeated until learned...A lesson is repeated until learned...A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it you then go on to the next lesson.
5 ~ Learning lessons do not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive there are lessons to be learned.
6 ~ "There" is no better then "here." When your "there" has become a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again, look better then "here."
7 ~ Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8 ~ What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9 ~ Your answers lie inside of you. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
10 ~ You will forget all this or you will choose to remember.
11 ~ Should you choose to remember, you will know that with forgiveness, love and trust you will embrace all that is yours, take your place as a guide and undertake to live your life in absolute abundance, love and adventure.
~ unknown ~

confusion comes from being disconnected from your intuition. learning to align with what feels right, not in the sense of following your cravings but in the sense of moving toward what supports your evolution and your highest good, is a necessary skill.
there are two critical things to understand about intuition. the first is that it doesn't care about your comfort zone. it will ask you to be bold and valiant even if you do not feel ready. just like love, intuition is a vehicle for growth. if you listen to it, it will help you reach new personal heights. but to get there, you will have to face what is weighing you down and fully let it go.
the second is that it may ask you to place yourself in a difficult situations where you have to face your fears, but it will never ask you to hurt yourself. intuition will invite you to be courageous, but it will not lead you into a reckless dead end.
attuning to your intuition is a personal process. for me, intuition feels like a calm knowing that appears in my body. if i don't listening to it at first it will reappear sporadically with tranquil certainty. intuition has a softness to it, even when it asks you to make bold moves.
intuition is quite different from the reactive rambles of the mind or moments of emotional upheaval: while reactivity carries tension, intuition flows smoothly and steadily with information that can help you.
~ yung pueblo ~
there are two critical things to understand about intuition. the first is that it doesn't care about your comfort zone. it will ask you to be bold and valiant even if you do not feel ready. just like love, intuition is a vehicle for growth. if you listen to it, it will help you reach new personal heights. but to get there, you will have to face what is weighing you down and fully let it go.
the second is that it may ask you to place yourself in a difficult situations where you have to face your fears, but it will never ask you to hurt yourself. intuition will invite you to be courageous, but it will not lead you into a reckless dead end.
attuning to your intuition is a personal process. for me, intuition feels like a calm knowing that appears in my body. if i don't listening to it at first it will reappear sporadically with tranquil certainty. intuition has a softness to it, even when it asks you to make bold moves.
intuition is quite different from the reactive rambles of the mind or moments of emotional upheaval: while reactivity carries tension, intuition flows smoothly and steadily with information that can help you.
~ yung pueblo ~
In A Tree HouseLight
Will someday split you open Even if your life is now a cage, For a divine seed, the crown of destiny, Is hidden and sown on an ancient fertile plain You hold the title to. Love will surely bust you wide open Into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy Even if your mind is now A spoiled mule. A life giving radiance will come, The Friend's gratuity will come - O look again within yourself, For I know you were once the elegant host To all the marvels in creation. From a sacred crevice in your body A bow rises each night And shoots your soul into God. Behold the Beautiful Drunk Singing One From the lunar vantage point of love. He is conducting the affairs Of the whole universe While throwing wild parties In a tree house - on a limb In your heart. ~ Hafiz ~ |
The JourneyOne day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save. ~ Mary Oliver ~ |
Letters to a Young Poet
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Simple Prayer for Remembering The Motherlode
“We do not become healers.
We came as healers. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become storytellers.
We came as carriers of the stories that
we and our ancestors actually lived. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become artists. We came as artists. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become writers.. dancers.. musicians.. helpers.. peacemakers. We came as such. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not learn to love in this sense. We came as Love. We are Love. Some of us are still catching up to who we truly are.”
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~
Multidimensional Energy Medicine

Health, what does it Look Like?
Marie Manuchehri, RN
From an energy medicine perspective, good health is multidimensional. It goes beyond symptoms and diagnosis. How you feel physically is one dimension. How your doctors summarize your symptoms is another. Perhaps the most important dimension is how energy moves in your body, resulting in symptoms that will light up a CT scan.
Energy is not only older than the invention of the stethoscope; it is older than the language used to describe physical discomfort. Energy is the core of all things in the universe.
The submicroscopic world of energy creates the home you live in, the car you drive, and the clothing you're wearing right now. Underneath the particles that make up the texture, design, and color in your clothing lives another formation of subatomic particles, the human body. Your body pulsates with energy. In one moment, you body moves vast amounts of blood to your heart while cleansing carbon monoxide from your lungs. The cleansing takes place through millions of cellular contacts powered by energy, ultimately allowing you to breathe.
If everything is made of energy then disease is too. Therefore disease is energy. Disease would be found in the areas of the body where energy is stagnant or barely moving. In contrast, healthy, vital areas of the body are full of motion.
Energy medicine assesses the energetic state, or overall health of a person. This is done by detecting areas of the body where the energy is stagnant. Energy medicine practices are then used to re-vitalize the area.
The chakras are receivers and transmitters of life force energy into the body. Their vitality or lack thereof, is the perfect way to measure the health of the organs and systems they nourish. When a chakra lacks color, light, or movement, it is low in energy. Chakras that chronically lack energy are indicators of poor health.
Revitalizing the chakra system can found through many outlets, including Chinese medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, naturopathic medicine, herbal medicines and various forms of hands on healing.
You can re-energize your chakras everyday through eating well, sleeping well and most importantly by feeling your feelings. Energy moves in to the body based on how we feel. Most times we choose to avoid our feelings. Sometimes we feel something that inaccurately represents our true feelings; like the feelings of another person.
Each chakra governs an emotional area of human life. If you allow yourself to be aware of your real feelings you will automatically release low energy and receive vital energy into your body.
Marie Manuchehri, RN
From an energy medicine perspective, good health is multidimensional. It goes beyond symptoms and diagnosis. How you feel physically is one dimension. How your doctors summarize your symptoms is another. Perhaps the most important dimension is how energy moves in your body, resulting in symptoms that will light up a CT scan.
Energy is not only older than the invention of the stethoscope; it is older than the language used to describe physical discomfort. Energy is the core of all things in the universe.
The submicroscopic world of energy creates the home you live in, the car you drive, and the clothing you're wearing right now. Underneath the particles that make up the texture, design, and color in your clothing lives another formation of subatomic particles, the human body. Your body pulsates with energy. In one moment, you body moves vast amounts of blood to your heart while cleansing carbon monoxide from your lungs. The cleansing takes place through millions of cellular contacts powered by energy, ultimately allowing you to breathe.
If everything is made of energy then disease is too. Therefore disease is energy. Disease would be found in the areas of the body where energy is stagnant or barely moving. In contrast, healthy, vital areas of the body are full of motion.
Energy medicine assesses the energetic state, or overall health of a person. This is done by detecting areas of the body where the energy is stagnant. Energy medicine practices are then used to re-vitalize the area.
The chakras are receivers and transmitters of life force energy into the body. Their vitality or lack thereof, is the perfect way to measure the health of the organs and systems they nourish. When a chakra lacks color, light, or movement, it is low in energy. Chakras that chronically lack energy are indicators of poor health.
Revitalizing the chakra system can found through many outlets, including Chinese medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, naturopathic medicine, herbal medicines and various forms of hands on healing.
You can re-energize your chakras everyday through eating well, sleeping well and most importantly by feeling your feelings. Energy moves in to the body based on how we feel. Most times we choose to avoid our feelings. Sometimes we feel something that inaccurately represents our true feelings; like the feelings of another person.
Each chakra governs an emotional area of human life. If you allow yourself to be aware of your real feelings you will automatically release low energy and receive vital energy into your body.
Vijnana Yoga the Practice from Inside

The four main practices of Vijnana Yoga
1.) The Seven Vital Principles are guidelines for the asana practice. Through them we adhere to the skeletal lines and thus find our true alignment.
2.) The extensive practice of pranayama utilizes the natural breath in a unique way.
By practising the vayus, we gradually master the classical pranayama forms.
3.) "Just sitting" meditation inspires deep listening, which is the ground for Vijnana (understanding from inside).
4.) The study of yogic texts integrate our intuitions and understanding into a more comprehensive view of life and our path in it.
The origin of the term Vijnana:
According to the great Vedantist philosopher Sankara, vijnana is a deep understanding or knowing that cannot come about merely through outer knowledge.
Even the knowledge expounded by our teachers and the inspiration we receive from spiritual texts is not enough. Vijnana is when inner clarity is revealed through personal experience.
Ramakrishna explains vijnana thus: "The awareness and conviction that fire exists in wood is jñana (knowledge). But to cook rice on that fire, eat the rice and get nourishment from it is vijñana."
~ Orit Sen Gupta ~
Way Through

It is the journey from darkness to light in which we seek. Soul, within desires to feel Truth, to feel its way through thick and mud so it may see its reflection once again. So we may gaze upon one another and know that we are God.
~ edysha ~
~ edysha ~
Everything is possible.
Healing our nervous systems of trauma, grief and pain.
Learning to recognize our innate JOY
Awakening to the truth of who we are.
Feeling and sensing the platform of our 'okayness' grow and bloom.
Loving ourselves no matter what.
Extending this Love to others.
Changing the world from the inside out.
~ Elizabeth Claire Burr ~
Healing our nervous systems of trauma, grief and pain.
Learning to recognize our innate JOY
Awakening to the truth of who we are.
Feeling and sensing the platform of our 'okayness' grow and bloom.
Loving ourselves no matter what.
Extending this Love to others.
Changing the world from the inside out.
~ Elizabeth Claire Burr ~